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Mental-health experts quoted in the story argue that Furrow's case is not nearly as clear-cut as the cases against the Capitol-building gunman or the recent New York City subway pusher.
I doubt that it is accurate to define gunsel as a `callow youth,' a sense that probably rubbed off from the character played by Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese Falcon: though he was referred to (by Bogart, as I recall) as a `punk' and `gunsel' and was portrayed as ineffectual, that does not justify a transferred definition: gunsel , probably from Yiddish, is a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman, body guard, torpedo, hit man,' and the like, simply a `criminal who carries a gun,' and needs no (additional) pejorative treatment.
Or, if it didn't exactly pull the trigger, it sure didn't tackle the gunman and restrain him.
Compare the gunman's direct approach with the "voluntary standards" shakedown practiced by the federal government.
The Los Angeles gunman surrendered.