". . . and 14 children are killed every day."
"Repeat a lie often enough . . ." - Josef Goebbels.
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Massachusetts cited in House push for gun safety legislation
By Alex Canizares States News Service, 7/20/2000
WASHINGTON - Holding up Massachusetts as an example, legislators proposed measures yesterday to require that guns have the same safety protections that are applied to teddy bears, toasters, and other consumer products.
In 1997, Massachusetts became the first state to adopt gun safety standards, including mandatory trigger locks. The regulations went into effect this month after the state Supreme Judicial Court upheld the rules.
''We wanted to have [gun] manufacturers play the same role that every other business has to play,'' Scott Harshbarger, the head of Common Cause, who led the effort in Massachusetts when he was state attorney general, said at a Capitol Hill news conference. ''Why can't that happen at the national level?''
Despite polls showing public support for gun control, attempts to pass legislation have stalled in Congress under heavy opposition from the gun industry. Among the efforts is a bill introduced last month by Senator John F. Kerry to establish safety standards for trigger locks.
The new legislation, sponsored by Senator Robert Torricelli, a New Jersey Democrat, and Representative Patrick Kennedy, Democrat of Rhode Island, gives the Treasury Department authority to regulate the manufacture, distribution and sale of guns. The bill would require gun-makers to adopt trigger locks, indicator lights showing when a gun is loaded, and other child-proof measures that have been spurned by the gun industry.
Most products, including new drugs and even teddy bears, are regulated for safety, Torricelli said.
'This Congress doesn't have the courage or the moral integrity to regulate this weapon for its safety,'' he said, holding up a handgun.
Toricelli said 32,000 people were killed by guns in 1997, and 14 children are killed every day. A third of those deaths could have been prevented by inexpensive safety devices, according to Torricelli.
National Rifle Association spokesman Bill Powers said the bill was motivated by election-year politics.
''This legislation deliberately ignores that firearms are among the most regulated product in America,'' he said. ''They're a safe, non-defective product.''
This story ran on page A22 of the Boston Globe on 7/20/2000.
© Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper Company.
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.
"Repeat a lie often enough . . ." - Josef Goebbels.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/202/nation/Massachusetts_cited_in_House_push_for_gun_safety_legislation+.shtml/
Massachusetts cited in House push for gun safety legislation
By Alex Canizares States News Service, 7/20/2000
WASHINGTON - Holding up Massachusetts as an example, legislators proposed measures yesterday to require that guns have the same safety protections that are applied to teddy bears, toasters, and other consumer products.
In 1997, Massachusetts became the first state to adopt gun safety standards, including mandatory trigger locks. The regulations went into effect this month after the state Supreme Judicial Court upheld the rules.
''We wanted to have [gun] manufacturers play the same role that every other business has to play,'' Scott Harshbarger, the head of Common Cause, who led the effort in Massachusetts when he was state attorney general, said at a Capitol Hill news conference. ''Why can't that happen at the national level?''
Despite polls showing public support for gun control, attempts to pass legislation have stalled in Congress under heavy opposition from the gun industry. Among the efforts is a bill introduced last month by Senator John F. Kerry to establish safety standards for trigger locks.
The new legislation, sponsored by Senator Robert Torricelli, a New Jersey Democrat, and Representative Patrick Kennedy, Democrat of Rhode Island, gives the Treasury Department authority to regulate the manufacture, distribution and sale of guns. The bill would require gun-makers to adopt trigger locks, indicator lights showing when a gun is loaded, and other child-proof measures that have been spurned by the gun industry.
Most products, including new drugs and even teddy bears, are regulated for safety, Torricelli said.
'This Congress doesn't have the courage or the moral integrity to regulate this weapon for its safety,'' he said, holding up a handgun.
Toricelli said 32,000 people were killed by guns in 1997, and 14 children are killed every day. A third of those deaths could have been prevented by inexpensive safety devices, according to Torricelli.
National Rifle Association spokesman Bill Powers said the bill was motivated by election-year politics.
''This legislation deliberately ignores that firearms are among the most regulated product in America,'' he said. ''They're a safe, non-defective product.''
This story ran on page A22 of the Boston Globe on 7/20/2000.
© Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper Company.
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.