Word: vorenbergs
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...although he fought the despicable Republican architects of what Dash sees as a blueprint for a police state, becomes as much an enemy as Baker. Dash welcomes Cox and James Vorenberg, professor of Law, to Washington, but soon recoils in horror as Cox suggests that the time for the Senate's investigation has ended. Cox argued at the time that he was fully competent to investigate and prosecute the Watergate transgressions himself and didn't want the Senate committee interfering or prejudicing possible trials with excessive publicity. Dash, naturally, defended his position with vigor, and reports the following exchange...
...Street. Center Director James Vorenberg, who oversaw the survey, notes that the law has been enforced even against illegal gun carriers who had no other apparent criminal intention and "seems to have discouraged the casual carrying of firearms by those who do not have permits." This apparently led in turn to a drop in the use of guns in serious assaults. Previously, a steady 25% of those assaults involved guns; after the law went into effect the rate fell to less than 18%. In addition, there was an increased likelihood of prison terms for those who did use guns...
Unfortunately, says Vorenberg, there has been no drop in "the use of guns in premeditated crimes like armed robbery." That, concedes Beha, "lends some credence to the argument that 'guns don't cause crime, criminals do.' " But, he adds, "a gun is very much the weapon of choice if you are going to plan a robbery," and the Massachusetts law does not limit the general availability of guns. Beha observes that without such restrictions there is "no reason to expect the number of premeditated crimes to be affected." In short, gun laws aimed merely at street possession...
...mandatory one-year-in-jail Massachusetts gun law has had little effect upon the state's violent crime rate, according to a report released Wednesday by James Vorenberg, professor of Law and director of the Law School's Center for Criminal Justice...
Last Friday the Committee for Birch Bayh released the endorsements of Samuel H. Beer '43, professor of Government, Lance M. Liebman professor of Law, James Vorenberg '49, professor of Law, and Walter J. McCann, Jr. '63, chairman of Programs and Administration, Planning and Social Policy...