Gun Control

By ADAM TAYLOR
Staff reporter
11/08/2002

Anyone with a new gun in Wilmington would have to register the weapon with the police department under a proposal introduced Thursday by a city councilman.

Councilman Norman M. Oliver said he sponsored the ordinance after reading a recent Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League study of the 182 shootings in the city from January 1999 to April 2002. No conclusions were drawn in the study, but Oliver said it made him think police need a better way to track firearms.

November 2002

Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S.

By Joyce Lee Malcolm

On a June evening two years ago, Dan Rather made many stiff British upper lips quiver by reporting that England had a crime problem and that, apart from murder, "theirs is worse than ours." The response was swift and sharp. "Have a Nice Daydream," The Mirror, a London daily, shot back, reporting: "Britain reacted with fury and disbelief last night to claims b

By Michael L. Betsch
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
October 10, 2002

(CNSNews.com) - A Second Amendment group says the shooting of a 13-year-old boy outside a Maryland middle school on Monday bolsters its argument for allowing parents and teachers to carry guns on school grounds - specifically, in the parking lot outside.

Wednesday, October 9, 2002

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Despite frightening sniper attacks just a few miles from the U.S. Capitol, the once hot issue of national gun control appears to be dead and buried just a few weeks before hotly contested congressional elections.

Let's put it all in perspective!

Think about this;

a.  The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.

b.  Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 120,000.

c.  Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.

(US Dept.  of Health & Human Services)

Then think about this;

a.  The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000.

b.  The number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) is 1,500.

Tue Aug 27, 2002

By Alison McCook

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Suicide rates tend to be higher in US regions where a higher percentage of households have guns, researchers report.

More people kill themselves using guns than by all other suicide methods combined, according to Dr. Matthew Miller and his colleagues at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts.

By Jim Burns
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
August 07, 2002

(CNSNews.com) - The Justice Department's own admission that the FBI lost track of an estimated 775 weapons during a period of just over two years is giving a gun rights group more ammunition to attack gun control efforts.

"How can you expect the federal government to control illegal guns when it can't even keep track of its own firearms?" asked Alan Gottlieb, head of the Second Amendment Foundation.

Robert J. Spitzer is Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, College at Cortland.

Jul 11 2002

Editor's Note: Copyright © 2000 The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms. Ed. Carl T. Bogus. Reprinted by permission of The New Press.

Jun 27 2002

by Tom Diaz

Tom Diaz is senior policy analyst at the Violence Policy Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group working to reduce gun violence. He has worked as a journalist and was Democratic counsel to the Crime Subcommittee of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 1997.

Tom Diaz is senior policy analyst at the Violence Policy Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group working to reduce gun violence. He has worked as a journalist and was Democratic counsel to the Crime Subcommittee of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 1997.