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President Clinton calls our gun-free schools "safe zones," but this is a perverted idea of safety: Law-abiding students are defenseless while predatory juvenile delinquents, armed to the teeth, are free to roam.
A NYT "Week in Review" article details the apparent failure of "boot-camp" rehabilitation for juvenile delinquents.
Other delinquents are taking their chances, hoping the IRS won't act before a 10-year statue of limitations term runs out.
It is a 20 th -century American habit to portray adolescents as incipient juvenile delinquents, when not idealizing them as "the future of our society."
The New York Times leads with the news that the IRS has been letting tax delinquents go without paying back taxes amounting to billions of dollars.