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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The knowledge produced by this study was cited by those involved in the policy debate over new gun control legislation passed by the Congress in 1986.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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The shooting coincided with a debate that very same day in the German Parliament on tightening gun control legislation, an initiative forced by SDP [Labor] and Green party politicians in an ongoing attempt to further disarm law abiding German citizens.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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Editor's Note: In our next issue, we continue our series on gun control with a special debate between Charlton Heston of the NRA and Sarah Brady of Handguns, Inc.
The gun control debate is between two sets of people with opposite values - those who have no problems with owning firearms, and those who hate and fear guns (or gun owners)
Gun control legislation foundered in the aftermath of the shooting at Columbine as conservatives shifted the debate to one over values, at one point considering a bill that would allow the posting of the Ten Commandments in school classrooms.
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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LEAA strives to keep political debate focused on criminal behavior and criminal punishment, and to communicate the shared opinion of the majority of law enforcement that gun control is not effective crime control.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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The study casts doubt on one of the pillars of the gun control movement, and provides a volatile new addition to the politically charged debate over how and why the rate of gun crime has declined steadily since its peak in 1993.
As with the "gun control" debate, the federal Liberals were able to trundle out public opinion poll results indicating about 90 per cent of Canadians supported boater licencing.
The year 2000 will be a watershed year in the debate over gun control, so all NRA members need to be prepared to redouble their grassroots efforts.
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