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Jerome S. Fortinsky '83, founder and president of the 30-member Harvard Coalition for Handgun Control (HCHC), told a packed hearing room crowd of more than 100, including six legislators that "the streets of Massachusetts on longer belong to the people of our state...
...Criminals now rule the streets of our cities and towns, and the handgun is their scepter," he said, voicing support for a Senate bill which would ban the sale of handguns with barrel length less than three inches...
...weeks that remain before the March 28 election, the situation in El Salvador may well deteriorate further, since the guerrillas will step up military action to disrupt the voting. Last week a Salvadoran businessman, sympathetic to U.S. efforts, considered the problems that lay ahead. He carried a handgun on his hip and he had a shotgun in his car. "You can't have a stable country where 90% of your people are poor," said he. "You're sitting on a volcano. The Marxists already have the power of hatred...
Shoot the Handgun...
...opening a gun shop in town. That prospect galvanized the trustees. "I'm just against guns," says Sneider. "It's a deep conviction of mine." Says fellow Village Trustee Neil Cashman, who wrote the law against possession: "I was sick and tired of reading about handgun deaths." Three years ago, a pair of local teenage girls were murdered in a Morton Grove woods, both shot to death with a handgun...