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Jumping the Queue. Social Services Minister Barbara Castle, whose department is in charge of the National Health Service, has shown an inflexibility that has worsened the present impasse, but the background of the crisis is complex. Constantly rising demands for care have all but overwhelmed NHS and raised its costs...
"This is a very emotional issue," Buckley said earlier this month, "Handguns are phallic symbols and many people feel threatened when you talk about banning them. They feel you're talking about castration."
Opponents also argue that there is little justification for banning handguns on grounds that gun availability leads to suicide. MIT Professor Prescott Crout, also of GOAL, points out that the number of guns in circulation has increased dramatically since 1950 while the suicide rate has remained almost constant. He cites...
Banning handguns will only take them away from the peaceful, law-abiding citizen, Cassidy says: those who are committing the crimes will keep their guns.
Massachusetts is a good example of this problem, he claims, noting that "only .1 per cent of licensed gun owners in the state committed a crime with their guns in 1973." He cites Boston Police Department records showing that of the seventy handgun murders in Boston in 1973, not one...