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...that a front runner should be aloof, barely appears and never speaks in his low-tech ads, which consist mostly of text and testimonials. Hart, by contrast, is on camera in all his commercials. Both candidates have separate series for each coast: Mondale ads condemning Hart for opposing federal handgun legislation have aired in New Jersey, which has tough state controls, but not in California. Hart's New Jersey commercials show him talking about economic redevelopment on a blacktop swath of the Meadowlands sports complex, which was built on a reclaimed swamp. His California ads are moody and emotive...
...days after his arrival, the Pope was en route to Seoul's Myong Dong Cathedral when a deranged-looking young man dashed out from the crowd and, assuming a shooter's crouch about 35 ft. from John Paul's bulletproof car, brandished what looked like a handgun. An alert policeman fired one shot into the roadway in front of the man, who threw his "weapon" to the ground; it proved to be a plastic toy. The man raised his arms with fists clenched before he was hustled away...
Actually, Hart's stance is not quite so simple. A spokesman for the Washington-based Handgun Control, Inc. says the lobbying group received a statement from the Hart campaign the day of the debate explaining that the Senator favors a federally mandated "cooling off period," a 14-day gap between the time someone applies to purchase a gun and the actual sale, to allow officials to investigate the purchaser's record. He also indicated that he would endorse federal legislation regulating the importing and interstate sales of handguns, and mandatory additional sentencing for the use of firearms in a federal...
...makes it difficult to evaluate precisely what a Hart Administration would do on gun control. But even if Hart's strongest statements accurately reflect his position, such measures would fall far short of what is needed to curb domestic violence. The simple fact is that more than 50 million handguns are is circulation in the United States today, and the number grows by two million a year. More than 11,000 Americans fall victim each year to handgun deaths. Hart's proposals are unlikely to lower this toll. His suggested background check would have little impact. First, states which already...
Logic dictates that the best way to limit handgun deaths is to limit the supply of handguns. Some, such as Hart, base their opposition to such restrictions on the assertion that a bun is ineffective. Yet most of Western Europe, Japan and Canada have either bans or very strict regulations, or registrations and suffer much lower murder rates. Hart's true reluctance to embrace such a measure, an side acknowledged in an interview, lies partly in his belief that somehow people have some right to own whatever weapon they choose...