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...National Education Association. In a survey released last week, pollster Louis Harris found alarming evidence of a gun culture among the 2,508 students he polled in 96 schools across the U.S. Fifteen percent of students in the sixth through 12th grades said they have carried a handgun in the past 30 days, 11% said they have been shot at, and 59% said they know where to get a gun if they need...
...been taken by surprise. Three dozen shaken parents and troubled teenagers gathered on a rainy Tuesday night in May at the Benson Community Center, bracing for summer's onslaught and groping for solid ground in a world where cruising can include drive-by shootings and where a semiautomatic handgun can be the most exciting thing in a boy's life, the 1990s equivalent of a shiny new bicycle. "My son was shot last summer," announces Chris Messick, a mother of three. "They almost shot his head...
...Justice Department has found that 93 percent of gun-using criminals already obtain their guns through illegal means. Also, waiting periods have proven ineffective at stemming crime. From 1952 to 1974, California had a lower murder rate than the rest of the country. A 15-day waiting period on handgun purchases was enacted in 1975, and from 1975 to 1990, California had a higher murder rate than the rest of the country. Meanwhile, tough gun control laws in New York City and Washington, D.C. have done little to reduce violent crime. Gun control has never been shown to significantly reduce...
...control advocates say the U.S. should emulate countries like England, where hand-gun ownership is practically non-existent and violent crime is less prevalent than in the U.S. What they don't say is that England had lower murder rates than the U.S. before handgun ownership was made illegal, and the murder rate in England did not drop afterward...
...order to help combat the many myths about guns and gun owners, I invite any Crimson editor who has never fired a hand-gun to learn basic handgun safety and marks-manship as my guest at the Braintree Rifle and Pistol Club. John...