Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basis of the total rate of murder, state Senator Jack Backman, sponsor of the bill to ban handguns, compares the United States to other countries where there are much lower rates of gun ownership. The U.S. murder rate, he accurately reports, is five times the rate of Canada, 15 times the rate of England and 221 times the rate of Japan...
...support of the proposition that reducing the availability of guns reduces crime, the MCC reports that where the rate of gun ownership is low the percentage of gun use in murder is also low. But GOAL members claim that these statistics, if they are correct, are misleading and irrelevant to the real issue. They argue the real issue is whether, in areas where gun ownership is low, the total rate of murder is lower, not just the percentage of guns used in those crimes. Someone who is murdered is dead regardless of whether he was killed by a gun, they...
...second part of the campaign seeks to democratize the economy by eliminating the private ownership of large corporations. Although this is economic democracy in the more orthodox socialist sense, the method proposed is rather innovative. The same L.O. convention which called for the abolition of Paragraph 32 also commissioned L.O. economist Rudolf Meidner to do a study of "wage-earners' funds" for the control of corporate profits. Originally, the intent was to get at the profits left behind by L.O.'s solidarity wage policy in high wage firms. What has emerged, however, is a plan for the gradual socialization...
...wage policy, that presumably would otherwise go to managers or private shareholders. Finally, it reverses the normal order of socialization in mixed economies, by socializing the most profitable companies first, although it would still be a good 20 years before the employees' fund would have a majority ownership in even the most profitable firms...
...Squeaky Fromme or Sally Moore had tried to run the President down with an automobile, would the people who are so vehemently determined to ban all private ownership of guns be equally insistent on elimination of privately owned automobiles...