Handgun Politics

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Legislation to control handguns is not usually included in the lists of health-related matters before the Congress. But that's where it belongs, because handguns now annually kill nearly 10,000 people in this country, seriously injure scores of thousands, and greatly contribute to making homicide the leading cause of death among teen-agers and young adults. If some rogue bacillus produced this damage, it would easily, and rationally, come under the jurisdiction of an institute at Bethesda; meanwhile, legislators and presidents would proffer their support for a medical victory, rather than indulge in rhetorical acrobatics to explain mixed feelings about the offending . . .

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