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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.
"Today's Papers" received a number of sage emails from readers pointing out an oops in yesterday's column: California's gun control climate wasn't affected by the Brady bill because it already had in place a much stricter waiting-and-checking statute covering handgun purchases.
( Newsweek 's crusade follows a Time essay earlier this month calling for a handgun ban.)
Even though handgun deaths are actually down a bit from the early '90s, says a piece in Sunday's NYT "Week in Review," recent well-publicized shootings tend to stimulate lawful gun purchases for household protection, which may be bad news for those households, since according to one quoted expert, "the odds that a home will be the scene of a homicide are substantially greater if there is a gun in the home."
A Newsweek poll finds that 74 percent of Americans support registering all handgun owners; 93 percent favor a mandatory waiting period for gun purchases.