Page 12 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1981
National
Handguns can be purchased easily, inexpensively
Reagan shooting prompts dispute over gun control
United Press International
Advocates of handgun control
hope to win support for their
movement as a result of the assas
sination attempt on President
Reagan, but others say the shoot
ing only magnifies the ineffec
tiveness of gun laws.
Reagan, press secretary James
Brady, a Secret Service agent and
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were gunned down Monday out
side a district hotel by an assailant
wielding a .22-caliber “Saturday
Night Special.” It was purchased
in a Dallas pawn shop.
The gun, documents showed,
was one of two purchased for $47.
“This latest attempt on the life
of a president of the U.S. is not
only shocking, but also evidence
that brutal, senseless violence
continues to be an aspect of Amer
ican life and that all sorts of unst
able people have easy access to
handguns,” United Auto Workers
union President Douglas A. Fras
er said in Detroit.
But Donald Feder, executive
director of the Second Amend
ment Foundation in Seattle, said
gun control would do nothing to
control such violent outbursts.
Fraser, Cardinal Humberto
Medeiros of Boston and Sen.
Charles Percy, R-Ill., urged tight
er restrictions on handguns to era
dicate future tragedies.
“We are saddened and appalled
that, once again, the president of
the United States has become a
victim of a potentially lethal
assault. It is deplorable,” Feder
said in a statement.
Medeiros, archbishop of Bos
ton, immediately instructed spe
cial masses be held in the 411
parishes that make up the Boston
archdiocese and urged prayer for a
nation unable to control itself.
Feder, representing the found
ation’s 250,000 anti-gun control
members nationwide, said
weapons always will be available
to desperate people committed to
violence.
Gun control supporters like
“This tragedy reminds us that
violence and the easy availability
of firearms make every citizen of
high or low station vulnerable to a
murderous gun,” he said.
Percy implored the public to
come to its senses.
“The whole world looks at
America and its violence and asks
why we can’t find a way to control
it,” said Percy, sponsor of gun con
trol legislation.
In California, Sen. David
Roberti told fellow legislators the
nation cannot survive if its leaders
are constantly in danger.
Wisconsin Gov. Lee S. Dreyfus
was repulsed by the shootings —
the product of a “sickness in our
society” — but questioned
whether gun control would end
such attacks.
for the Citizens Committee foil
Right to Keep and Bear Arms,
the shooting of Reagan was a“
sad” indication that gun conk
do not work.
“I hasten to point out
occurred in the jurisdkti
(Washington) which has them
restrictive handgun contrails
in the United States,” Snyders
in a statement in Washington
But New York Mayor Edw
Koch, long an advocate of feds
handgun laws, was not convinn
“There are so many (handguns)
out there I don’t see that passing a
law will stop that,” Dreyfus said.
John M. Snyder, chief lobbyist
“What a horror. When will
stop? Thank God he’s alive
many times do we have
through this?” Koch said quiet!)
Hinckley sedated, isolated in brig
United Press Internationa]
WASHINGTON — The college
dropout charged with trying to kill
President Reagan was under seda
tion Tuesday in a Marine Corps
brig, isolated from other prisoners
as authorities worked to establish
his mental competence.
John W. “Jack” Hinckley Jr.,
25, was charged Monday with
attempting to assassinate a presi
dent and assaulting a federal agent
with a pistol.
The blond, stocky Hinckley —
kicked out of a neo-Nazi organiza
tion because he was “uncontroll
able, unstable” — has a history of
psychiatric care.
Hinckley was being held for
mental examination, FBI Director
William Webster said, but safety
considerations clouded where the
examination would take place.
“People are saying, ‘Do you
want another Jack Ruby situa
tion?’ ” one source said, referring
to Ruby’s killing of suspect Lee
Harvey Oswald following the
assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Although Hinckley’s court-
appointed lawyers asked a federal
magistrate to restrict the Secret
Service and FBI from interrogat
ing him until he underwent
psychiatric examination, no order
had been signed by noon Tuesday.
It could not be learned whether
investigators are continuing to
question Hinckley about the mo
tive for the shooting, or the pos-
siblity of a conspiracy.
FBI official Roger Young said
Tuesday, “We have no credible
evidence at this point that this act
is other than the act of a single
person. ”
Justice Department spokesman
Tom DeCair said Hinckley ar
rived at the Quantico Marine Base
40 miles south of Washington at
12:30 a.m. CST.
“He’s segregated from the rest
of the brig, ” DeCair sid. “He’s in a
small cell — 6 by 10 — with a cot
and toilet.”
DeCair said Hinckley was being
given the tranquilizer Valium at
the recommendation of two physi-
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cians who examined him. DeCi
said he did not know the dosage
Valium being given to the susp#l
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go Tuesday Michael C. Alls
head of the National Socialist Pi
ty of America, said Hinckley*
expelled from the Nazi groupt an Agri
cause, “He kept talking aba Jling or
shooting people and blowiifiei]
things up.”
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WASHINGTON — Vice President George Bush
took over some of President Reagan’s official duties
at the White House Tuesday while Reagan was
recovering from surgery to remove a would-be as
sassin’s bullet.
Bush arrived at the White House at 7:30 a.m.
CST and began his day with an intelligence brief
ing. Afterward he arranged to meet with Reagan’s
top staffers, including counselor Edwin Meese and
chief of staff James Baker.
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and the Republican and Democratic congressional
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president’s condition and affairs of state.
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LUBBOCK — John W. Hinc
kley Jr., accused of shooting Presi
dent Reagan and three other men,
said during last year’s presidential
campaign in a conversation about
Reagan that all politicians should
be eliminated.
Calvin Wynne, an apartment
maintenance man, said he had
had two conersations with Hinck
ley. The first was about the man’s
work, but the second carried
ominous overtones of Monday’s
shooting attack on Reagan in
Washington, D.C.
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done was that they all he elimi
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any authoritarian control, ffl
were talking about Reagan.
“He was trying to defend soi
other politician. I can’t remei
her. It was (Libertarian Party
didate Ed) Clark, that was
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