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Introduction: Gun Control: A Crime or Crime Stopper? |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / GUN CONTROL: A CRIME OR CRIME STOPPER? |
| Author: Editor |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1997 |
| Size: 556 Words, 3,345 Characters |
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In the great western movie High Noon Gary Cooper plays the role of a soft-spoken, tough-on-crime marshall who takes the thankless job of cleaning up a lawless frontier town. The fictional Hadlesville is probably like many real towns of the old West--an unsafe place to settle down and build a future. Thugs armed with fast guns roam the land tyrannizing the weak. Cooper changes all that. He begins by instituting a st...
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...nd any rational strategy to reduce gun violence must include such gun-control measures. Weil points out that since the Brady Law was first implemented, eighty-five felons a day have been denied access to a handgun that they tried to purchase from licensed gun dealers. This, he says, is a good beginning. But Brady may have some problems. Recently, the Supreme Court heard challenges to the law.
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