Word: handgun
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WASHINGTON--House and Senate conferees agreed yesterday to a sweeping crime bill that would apply the death penalty to some 50 federal offenses and require a fiveday waiting period for handgun purchases...
...House, which had passed a seven-day waiting period for handgun purchases last May, accepted the Senate's five-day version, which requires police to conduct background checks of would-be buyers...
Dropped from the House-Senate compromise was a Senate-passed provision that would make street handgun murders a federal crime punishable by death...
Recent studies scream loudly about the trauma care crisis and call for congressional action. The less that politicians are willing to compromise and the less that the American taxpayers are willing to pay taxes to solve the problems of drugs, AIDS, homelessness, handgun control and poverty, the more emergency rooms are going to close down...
Even if Congress and the president did compromise on national healthcare, legislation alone could not solve these problems, unless it could win the war on drugs, end handgun use, wipe out the health problems of the poor, eliminate homelessness, find a cure for AIDS, and end alcoholism. Fat chance...