第一篇：Unit 9+tapescripts（模版）

Facing the wrong end of a pistol

LESLIF BREEDING,co-host:Handguns account for much of the violent crime in this country.Statistics show that one out of every five of us will face the wrong end of a pistol in our lives.The Senate Judiciary Committee decided this week to propose changes in the 1968 Gun Control Act that would lift most bans against the sales of guns across state lines.During the debate Senator Edward Kennedy tried,but failed,to exempt the guns known as “Saturday Night Special” from the proposal.Olen Kelley,a grocery store manager from Silver Spring,Maryland,has launched his own attack against Saturday Night Specials.He’s field suit in his home county’s circuit court to try to stop the manufacture and distribution of the cheap handguns.Kelley has been held up more than once;each time the robber had a gun.A year ago he was held up for the fifth time by two men who were after the money in the store’s safe..//

OLEN KELLEY: And I missed the combination the first time.So one of’em,with the gun,put the gun up to the side of my head,pulled the hammer back and said, “Uh,don’t miss it a second time.”So,I slowed down,made sure I got the safe open,and then they told me to lay

down on the floor.Well,after I lay down on the floor,they…one of them hit me over the head with something.It probably was his fist,I’m not sure;and the other one shot me.BREEDING:He shot you?

KELLEY:Yes.BREEDING:Did he injure you badly?

KELLEY:He shot me in the shoulder.It came out my armpit,went back in my armpit,traveled down my side,and came out the lower part of my side.BREEDING:How about the other times that you were attacked? Were they also with guns?

KELLEY:Handguns,yes.//

BREEDING:Who are you suing,then?

KELLEY:I’m suing the distributor of this particular gun,what is the

name of the company…the name of the gun is a Rolm.The distributor is in Florida,and the maker of the gun is in Germany.I don’t know all the legal technicalities to do this,but I feel that these people that make these guns and distribute them throughout the country should repay for what they’re doing.BREEDING:There would be some people who would say to you that if you had been robbed at knifepoint,say,rather than gunpoint,would you then want to sue the knife manufacturer?

KELLEY:Well,the knife manufactures,just like rifle manufacturers,they’re not meant to be such an item as to be used in a crime.They are used that way,granted,but in most incidences you’ll find that cheap handguns are used,and used to kill people with.Now a knife is used…h(huán)as other purposes,and that’s what it’s made for.I’m not after the NRA or I’m not after sporting-type guns.I’m after these particular junk guns—they are of no use to society.And if you probably tried to shoot one of them at a good distance,you probably couldn’t hit anything with it anyway.Up close you could,but—and in my instance the guy was about a foot-and-a-half away from me when he shot me.BREEDING:This is likely to be a controversial case.Are you prepared to take it for years and years,you know,all the way to the Supreme Court if you have to?

KELLEY:If I have to,yes,Cost me a lot of time,but I’m willing to try.I have to try.I feel I have the right to try.BREDDING:Olen Kelley’s suit asks $500 million damages from RG Industries.His lawyers say they hope,that,with that award,to make it impossible for the company to make the guns.