Word: democratizing
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...Milwaukee Journal poll last April, 65% of city residents favored a ban on handguns and assault weapons. "In this climate it's actually possible that a handgun ban might pass in Milwaukee," says Mayor John Norquist, a Democrat. "I'll vote for it, even though it won't do much." Norquist prefers strict liability laws for manufacturers, more gun controls and tougher sentences for gun violations. "The Brady bill is an important first step," he says. "I'm encouraged because guns are becoming unfashionable, even creepy...
Representative Charles Schumer isn't waiting for the information to come online. "We do not have to live with this insanity," the New York Democrat said last week as he unveiled the gun-control package he plans to submit to Congress in January. The bill, which has the backing of Sarah Brady's Handgun Control Inc., would require all handgun buyers to be licensed and to possess a renewable national handgun card, which would be issued only after a thorough background check. To put a squeeze on gunrunners, it would limit purchases to one a month. To discourage illicit resales...
Billing himself as a New Democrat, President Clinton owes the American people a commitment to pursuing new ideas to old problems. Drug legalization ostensibly makes sense, promoting both individual freedom and individual responsibility, while reducing crime and violence. President Clinton must offer us more convincing reasons than the possibility of his brother's shortened lifespan...
WASHINGTON -- Senators Bob Kerrey and John Danforth, co-chairs of the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement Reform -- the group President Clinton agreed to back in order to win Democrat Kerrey's crucial vote on the budget -- appear set to pick Fred Goldberg, the IRS chief under Bush, as their executive director. Goldberg is an advocate of shifting federal taxes away from income to consumption, as are -- in a general way -- Danforth and Kerrey. This worries Clinton economic advisers. Having been singed already this year by a VAT scheme, they don't want the President to be associated with any similar proposals...
TIME: Is that something only a Democrat can say, because if a Republican President says it, it just sounds like "family values...