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<text id=92TT2358>
<title>
Oct. 19, 1992: Gun Shirts Are Out
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Oct. 19, 1992 The Homestretch: Clinton in Control
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 24
SOCIETY
Gun Shirts Are Out
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<p>Parents and teachers move to get rid of a violent teen symbol
</p>
<p> For teenagers in the Washington area, they are a hip
fashion statement: T shirts emblazoned with a 9-mm handgun or
a Mac 10 semiautomatic pistol on the front and rap lyrics such
as "Mac Dad'll make ya jump, jump" on the back. But to alarmed
teachers and parents, the hot-selling shirts are inciting
echoes of gun violence that has become a part of the area's teen
culture and claimed 385 lives last year alone. At several
schools, principals are asking students to turn the shirts
inside out or change clothes.
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<p> The gun-shirt craze has been a jackpot for vendors, who
collect $13 to $15 a garment. Some sellers have continued
peddling the shirts, claiming a teenager who wears a gun shirt
isn't likely to attract attention to himself by also toting a
gun. Other vendors insist it is only a fad but have halted the
supply in response to parental concern. "But T shirts don't kill
people," says manufacturer Ben S. Ali, who has stopped selling
the shirts. "People kill people."
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