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helps all people
United Press International
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — If
your teenage son or daughter
comes home from a party
’ $ uuu uul ! 1 j i stoned and sick, where do you
ofesstonal first for help? poison con .
trol? The hospital emergency
room? A youth drug center?
Most cities have single
service agencies aimed at
treating specific problems.
Residents of Monroe County,
in upstate New York, can call
Lifeline, a 24-hour, 365-day-
a-year, crisis intervention ser
vice. Lifeline pulls together
the county’s most vital infor
mation agencies to provide
help for a wide range of
needs.
MM The Monroe County ser-
■ vice is not affiliated with the
I 1 Boston-based Lifeline organi-
I zation, which has about
30,000 subscribers enrolled
nationwide in 800 programs.
“We (the Monroe County
service) look at ourselves as a
comprehensive first entry to
the whole network of mental
health and other human ser
vices,” said director Betty
Oppenheimer.
Not all crises are life-
threatening, she said.
“If an 89-year-old woman is
homebound and has had a cat
for years as a constant com
panion and the cat dies, that’s
a crisis for her.
The 10-year-old program
gan with three existing ser
vices in the Rochester area: A
poison control center, a men
tal health information and cri
sis service and, a medical
emergency service. In 1981,
administrators added a Un
ited Way human services re
ferral network.
“This way you can call for
an immediate assessment for
an emergency or to ask some
body about where to get ser
vices or just to talk,”
Oppenheimer said.
Counselors direct callers to
the right places to receive help
instead of providing face-to-
face, on-going therapy them
selves, she said.
“All our work is short-term
crisis intervention. We don’t
duplicate anything already
available in the community.
“It makes a lot of sense to
integrate services, particularly
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in large cities, where people
are moving around a lot —
where they don’t have support
systems or a knowledge of the
community and what’s avail
able. When you’re in a crisis is
not a good time to find out
these things.”
Oppenheimer said Lifeline
is more practical financially
than single-purpose agencies.
“With lots of hotlines, the
volume of calls is never that
great. You might get one call
an hour. But when you com
bine the services and get 15
calls an hour, that’s much
more cost-effective,” she said.
The service, which expects
to handle 98,000 calls this
year, is funded by the county
departments of health, men
tal health, aging and social ser
vices, as well as United Way.
Counselors are recruited
from the community and
screened before they are
allowed to answer crisis phone
calls.
Oppenheimer said 25 to 30
volunteers are accepted each
year for training out of 80 to
90 applicants.
“We look for people who
have stable lives. We feel they
should have their own lives in
hand before they can help
other people.”
“And we also look for non-
judgmental volunteers — we
need people who don’t have
some bias about particular
problems, who can under
stand and empathize.”
David, 27 (volunteers are
asked not to reveal their full
names), said it is sometimes
hard to fit a weekly five-hour
shift around his full-time
work schedule, “but it’s worth
it to me.”
“There are a lot of people
out there who need help and it
feels good to me to be able to
do that,” he said.
David said he doesn’t feel
apprehensive about possibly
giving bad advice to callers.
“The best thing you can do
is just be a person who cares,”
he said. “These people come
from all walks of life — they’re
grandmothers, service peo
ple, corporate executives. It
doesn’t take any special train
ing to talk to them.
“All it takes is a willingness
to listen and help."
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Machine gun market sky- rocketing
United Press International
DALLAS — There are nearly
four times as many machine-
guns and assault rifles in the
hands of private citizens as in the
hands of police officers, and
they are all sold through a legal
street market that has skyrock
eted in recent years, federal offi
cials said.
Keeping track of that market
is an obscure agency in the
Treasury Department that
keeps its files manually, is ham
pered by conflicting regulations
and enforces laws that date back
to the 1930s.
All a private citizen needs to
own a fully automatic weapon is
$200 for a one-time tax, about
$500 to buy the weapon and the
patience to fill out one set of
forms. He will not be photo
graphed or fingerprinted, and
local law enforcement agencies
need not be consulted.
One Dallas arms dealer, who
asked not to be named, said the
number of people taking advan
tage of loose regulations has
grown to be a problem for
dealers.
“It’s making business hard for
people who want to operate a
shop because everyone is a deal
er now,” the dealer said. “The
big market isn’t over the coun
ter. It’s out in the street.”
Gary Schaible, who heads the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms branch that deals with
firearms regulations, said there
has been a definite increase in
the number of applications for
licenses for automatic weapons.
Automatic weapons that fire
continuously as long as the trig
ger is held down.
“The total number of licen
sees who can engage in National
Firearms Act activity has in
creased 185 percent in the last
five years,” Schaible said.
Firearms are regulated by two
laws: the National Firearms Act
of 1934, which pertains to auto
matic weapons; and the Gun
Control Act of 1968, which reg
ulates imports and interstate
shipments.
The 1934 law requires a $200
tax be paid before a private
citizen can own an automatic
weapon.
That was a big enough tax to
discourage buyers in the 1930s,
but it totals about the same as a
good stereo set when added to
the cost of an automatic weapon
today. They range from $500
for the Roger Mini-14 assault
rifle to $2,500 for the belt-fed
German HK-21 light
machinegun.
“Dealers and individuals are
getting them,” Schaible said.
“That’s where the increase is. A
lot of it is for collection pur
poses.”
In 1981, the last year complete
figures were available, Schaible
said law enforcement officers
had 18,740 automatic weapons,
compared with a total of 68,650
in the hands of private citizens.
What kind of people buy
machineguns?
‘‘My best customers are
lawyers,” said the Dallas gun
dealer. “They’ll get a guy off,
then go home at night and say,
‘My God, this guy killed eight
people with his bare hands, and
he’s loose.’ After awhile he’ll
come see me.
“I’m seeing a lot of people
nowadays who are making good
money, but they’re machinists,
blue-collar workers,” the dealer
said. “I think primarily the in-
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crease is in people who are just
figuring out, ‘Hey, I can own a
'machinegun.’”
The 1934 law permits a pri
vate citizen to buy a machinegun
if he pays a one-time $200 tax on
the transaction, but the applica
tion requires an affadavit from
the local police chief or sheriff
attesting to the buyer’s good
character.
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