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...program has not only focused renewed attention on a national tragedy but also produced a fistful of studies that illuminate the problem in new and more subtle ways. It has shown, for example, that some people who are legally entitled to buy guns are very likely to commit crimes with them, and that denying them the right to buy weapons can actually reduce crime. "I realized," says Wintemute, "that the most effective way to treat a gunshot wound was to keep it from happening in the first place...
Wintemute and his colleagues provided a clear statistical link between Saturday-night specials and youthful crime. Their 1996 study showed that even teenage buyers of these guns with no criminal record were more likely than purchasers of more expensive handguns to commit violent crimes with them...
...vigorous police action against so-called quality-of-life violations has cut murders in half and greatly reduced other violent crimes. Under the New York style of policing, which has spread to half a dozen other cities, police officers stop and question people at will and penalize those who commit such minor violations as riding a bicycle on the sidewalk and urinating in public. If a person is unable to provide photo identification, he or she is taken to the station, searched, fingerprinted and possibly detained...
Though the autopsy reinforced earlier impressions that the killer was familiar with the Ramsey house and had plenty of time to commit the murder, it offered no fresh insight into who might have killed the prepubescent beauty queen. Boulder County coroner John Meyer did not even estimate the time of death. But that did not stop the Ramseys' attorney, Hal Haddon, from weighing in with one of the first opinions on the report. "The autopsy details released today confirm what we have known for some time," he said in a statement, "that this vicious murder was well planned...
...seems to have that ring to it [NATION, Aug. 4]. No one would have thought that this murderer would put the nation in such a frantic state. With Cunanan's desperate suicide, the worst of this nightmare is over, but we will probably never know what caused him to commit five murders across the country. MARGARET JONES Prescott...