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...their incomes. You can improve your standard of living in far safer ways with that kind of cash. A business-owner in New York City started a program over the holidays with this idea in mind. He offered people a $100 gift-certificate to a toy store for each firearm they turned in to the 34th Precinct. Since then, the "Toys-for-Guns" program has been instituted all over the country with widespread corporate support. Still, one man in New York told ABC News that yes, he had turned in "a few" handguns, but that he had kept...
America has been so lax about firearms that even the most basic facts about gun violence are hard to pin down, which leads to uncertainty in making effective policy. A major statistical source is the FBI's yearly Uniform Crime Report. Though it breaks down deaths into three categories -- by handguns, rifles and shotguns -- it says nothing about how many people are killed by imported guns or "Saturday-night specials," or how many died while resisting a stickup. To clarify the picture, Colorado Representative Patricia Schroeder is sponsoring a bill to establish a national firearm-fatality reporting system. Comparable...
...Sporting Goods in Moberly, Missouri, store owner Dick Boots sometimes turns them down. "Occasionally," Boots says, "there will be a little old lady who is scared and comes in looking for a gun for protection. Generally, I'll suggest a spray can of pepper Mace rather than a firearm...
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