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President Clinton proposed new federal gun control legislation . It would raise the legal age for handgun possession to 21, prohibit juvenile possession of semiautomatic weapons, require trigger locks, make parents criminally liable for "knowingly or recklessly" giving their kids access to guns used to kill or injure, and extend background checks to gun show patrons and people who try to buy explosives.
According to a study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, as many as 400,000 undergraduates in the United States own a handgun.
Maybe there should be block grants to the states that would enable them to give a tax break to every white teen-ager in America who buys a high-quality handgun.
so maybe what this country also needs is for more politicians to have family members who can't get drug rehabilitation treatment or day care or who end up on the wrong end of a handgun.
A Seattle workplace massacre is fronted by USAT and reefered by the LAT and Post . The gunman wore fatigues to a shipyard and shot four people with a 9mm handgun, killing two.