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Wilson conceded yesterday that numerous people have told him that his name is on the list of people under consideration by the special search committee that has been looking for a president since Edward Levi resigned that post to become Attorney General four months...
...addition to "calling attention to" deterrence of crime, perhaps Attorney General Levi should also call attention to the negative influence of many TV programs...
There are now an estimated 40 million handguns in the U.S., and the total is increasing by 2.5 million a year. The result has been carnage. Handguns are the weapons in more than half of the murders committed in the U.S. According to U.S. Attorney General Edward Levi, about one of every four aggravated assaults and one of every three robberies involves a pistol...
State and local laws have been as ineffective as the federal statutes. According to Levi, only two states-New York and Massachusetts-have "tough" gun-control statutes. The first case under Massachusetts' new law, which went into effect on April 1, was decided last week when Calvin Hebert, 18, was found guilty of carrying a rifle without a permit. If Hebert's appeal is turned down, he would be subject to the one-year mandatory jail sentence the new law imposes on all offenders, even transients with guns registered in states other than Massachusetts...
...statistics tell only part of the story. The Justice Department calculates that about one-third of all violent crimes go unreported, an estimate that some legal experts think is far too low. Attorney General Edward H. Levi pessimistically terms the increase "predictable" and calls for greater attention to the deterrence of criminal acts. As a first step, Levi called for a new federal gun-control law that would ban possession of hand guns on the streets of high crime cities...