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The class-action suits, which would be brought by local public-housing authorities and coordinated by the Clinton administration, would demand reimbursement for security and other costs of handgun violence.
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.
"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.
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.
The Los Angeles Times leads with something far more lethal than a hurricane: a semi-automatic handgun.