Word: backman
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...basis of the total rate of murder, state Senator Jack Backman, sponsor of the bill to ban handguns, compares the United States to other countries where there are much lower rates of gun ownership. The U.S. murder rate, he accurately reports, is five times the rate of Canada, 15 times the rate of England and 221 times the rate of Japan...
Many advocates of handgun prohibition have conceded it won't stop crime in general. Senator Backman says his bill to ban handguns was really aimed at preventing murders committed by previously law-abiding citizens in a rage of passion during a fight with friends or relatives. If a gun was really not accessible, Backman argues, the murder may not have taken place because a less deadly weapon would have been used. Buckley says, "FBI crime reports show that 72 per cent of all murders are crimes of passon...
Speakers at yesterday's rally included State Senator Jack Backman, (D. Brookline), and representatives of most Massachusetts state and community colleges...
William L. Backman, of the University police said yesterday that Tuttle came to the Harvard police headquarters and asked for assistance in making the arrest. The police contacted the registrar's office, which officially identified the students, Backman said...
Janet Wohlberg has joined with Litsas, Backman, Buckley and others in combating what they call America's "gun culture." They are reacting against values that have a lot to do with the lingering myth of the "frontier spirit" but little to do with modern urban society. "Our country has changed since the days of the wild, wild, west when men wore a six-gun strapped to their hip for protection," Buckley says...