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The two recently attempted assassinations of President Ford have again made gun control a major political issue. This is especially true here in Massachusetts where a bitter controversy surrounds a well-organized petition drive to place a measure banning handguns on the ballot in 1976.
The proponents of the handgun ban claim it will reduce the availability of handguns and consequently reduce crime, murder, violence, suicide, and fatal accidents. John Buckley, Sheriff of Middlesex County and founder of People vs. Handguns, notes that 54 per cent of all murders are committed with handguns, 33 per...
Now prospects for the lessening of discrimination are brightening. A federal law banning sex bias in the granting of credit goes into effect next week, and last week the Federal Reserve Board published rules for enforcing it that are tougher than many creditors would have liked. Also last week a...
SHERIFF BUCKLEY counters that a handgun is not a good weapon for self-defense, and therefore, concludes there is no need for it. "Four family members of gun owners are killed in accidents for every burglar killed by a gun," he says. But the number of burglars killed by a...
Banning handguns would only add another victimless crime to the already depressingly long list of such crimes. Real crime and murder could be prevented and vastly reduced by putting the repeaters who commit most of both in prison. Banning handguns would not only be an ineffective means for solving these...