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...Handgun Menace...
...have solidified my long-held conviction that the only purpose for a handgun [Dec. 22] is to kill human beings. Hunters do not hunt with handguns. Armies do not war with handguns...
...most states, handguns are readily available and relatively inexpensive. With millions of guns circulating in streets and homes, it is not surprising that more than twelve thousand people each year become the victims of senseless shooting. In Great Britain, where handgun sales are banned, the murder rate is dramatically lower than...
...legislation will totally eradicate the distribution and use of handguns, but laws banning handgun manufacture and limiting the use of firearms by police forces will greatly reduce the number of deaths by shooting that afflicts the country...
...first view, Lonnie Wayne Burke (Griffin Dunne) is a criminal street urchin who almost seems afraid of his $2 handgun. A scruffy pressagent, Manny Alter, played with drooling opportunism by Larry Block, sees the chance to turn Lonnie into a lethal hot property. Decking the punk in a skeleton suit and dubbing him "the Halloween Killer," Manny starts Lonnie on the garish glory road to 27 murders. The tabloids swiftly pick up the scent (THE HALLOWEEN KILLER STALKS JACKIE O.). Smarmy talk-show hosts fawn on him, paperback offers and film rights proliferate, and Lonnie makes big bad bawdy whoopee...