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"If New Year's celebrations Thursday and Friday follow a recent South Florida trend, some revelers will ring in the good times by whipping out their guns and firing away."
"And innocent people will die."
"Celebratory gunshots took the life of 11-year-old Joshua Arroliga at the start of 2008. The Opa-locka boy was playing hide-and-seek behind a discarded sofa at his apartment building when one of his neighbors emptied a 9mm Glock's magazine into the furniture -- not realizing Joshua was hiding behind it."
"A year earlier, stray New Year's bullets took the life of two South Floridians -- Corey Baker, a 35-year-old father of five children in Miami, and Audley Ebanks, 69, of Plantation." ... |
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We'll take one step at a time, and the first is necessarily - given the political realities - very modest. We'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law and again and again. Our ultimate goal, total control of handguns, is going to take time. The first problem is to slow down production and sales. Next is to get registration. The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and ammunition (with a few exceptions) totally illegal. — Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc., New Yorker Magazine, June 26, 1976, pg. 53 |
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