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GUN CONTROLS WOULDN'T HAVE STOPPED RECENT SHOOTINGS
Gun control advocates and adversaries alike agree that none of
the gun legislation now before Congress would have averted the
recent massacre in a Texas church -- or any similar recent gun-
related calamity.
o In that string of violence, all the killers had either
bought their guns legally or found an easy way to get
around state and federal laws.
o The provisions now on the table -- from child safety-locks
to stricter regulation of gun shows -- would not have
stopped the sales or saved the people who died in the
attacks.
o Gun control advocates admit that Congress can do nothing
to prevent a mentally unstable person who has legal access
to guns from using them.
o Determining the mental health of a would-be buyer is a
thorny problem, says Adam Eisgrau, chief lobbyist for the
Center to Prevent Handgun Violence and Handgun Control --
who adds that providing federal authorities or gun dealers
with mental health records raises "substantial privacy
issues."
Source: David B. Ottaway and Barbara Vobejda, "Gun Control's
Limited Aim," Washington Post, September 19, 1999.
For more on Gun Control Myths
http://www.ncpa.org/pi/crime/crime51.html
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