Word: antigun
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...first sign that Greece had become a channel for the gunrunners came earlier this year, when a small arsenal was discovered in the home of a promonarchist deputy of the New Democracy Party named Hippocrates Savvouras. Savvouras, who admitted that the illegal arms were his (Greece has a strict antigun law), was kicked out of his party. Two prominent members of militant Socialist Andreas Papandreou's Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) were also caught in possession of five Kalashnikovs and a rocket launcher. Both were tried and received suspended sentences...
...need for stricter federal gun controls that were being held in Chicago last week by a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee. The mayor's views were hotly opposed by James Valentino Jr., president of the Illinois State Rifle Association. "The public wants anticrime laws, not antigun laws," said Valentino. "Protecting the citizens is not disarming them...
...streets of Kingston, filling the night with the sound of echoing gunfire. Reported shootings had risen 1,500% in ten years, and it seemed that crime was vying with tourism as Jamaica's No. 1 industry. Now all that has changed under a tough -some say unconstitutional-nationwide antigun campaign...
...doubt the antigun advocates, too, sometimes go beyond what is reasonable or at least practical. Some urge complete confiscation. "I see no reason," says University of Chicago Sociologist Morris Janowitz, "why anyone in a democracy should own a weapon...