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Page 6 • Monday, August 2, 1999
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Atlanta killings renct
gun-control argumef
Killer’s wife remeni
ATLANTA (AP) — This spring’s Colorado school
massacre gave gun control advocates much to further
their agenda. They had a villain: the TEC-DC-9, a
banned, cheap semiautomatic pistol favored by drug
dealers. They had a regulatory problem: lax sales rules
at gun shows.
But Mark O. Barton’s shooting spree last week in
Atlanta, which took nine lives, is another story.
Half the nation’s police officers carry the 9 mm
Glock-19 semiautomatic pistol assembled a dozen
miles from the brokerage firms where Barton killed six
of his victims. His other weapon, a Colt .45 pistol, is
the gun Tom Hanks aims at a tank in the final scene
of Saving Private Ryan and the gun Sgt. Alvin C. York
used to single-handedly capture 132 Germans during
World War I.
While the Atlanta killings have energized gun
control advocates, they provide few clear examples
of the narrow issues gun control advocates have re
cently pursued.
Child-safety locks would not have deterred Barton.
Police had no evidence he got his guns illegally or
bought them at a gun show where sales rules are lax.
The latest slayings strip the debate to the most ba
sic question — should handguns be banned entirely,
said Josh Sugarman, executive director of the Wash
ington-based Violence Policy Center.
“Until we start talking about banning handguns in
this country, this is America’s future,” Sugarman said.
“We’ll have shootings in schools, in office buildings,
in malls. In America, wherever you’re amid a large
concentration of people, you’re at risk.”
Friday, a group of Colorado students stood at the
site of the May massacre at Columbine High School
to renew their call for stronger curbs on handgun
ownership.
Atlanta and Columbine “taught us all that vio
lence can happen everywhere, not just in the inner
city, not just by hardened criminals,” said Ben Gelt,
a recent Denver high school graduate who organized
student gun control advocates following the Little
ton shootings.
Bill Powers, a spokesperson for the National Ri
fle Association, criticized efforts to “score political
points off of a tragedy” and said he does not expect
the Atlanta shootings to lead to significant changes
in gun law.
“If they want to come out and debate a total hand-
LIZELLA, Ga. (AP) — Mournerspackd]
church yesterday for the funeral o
ton, the first of 12 victims in her husband!
spree last week, as a pastor urged them
low her murder to cloud our memory.”
Girl Scouts in uniform passed outtissi
the service.
Mark O. Barton, 44, killed his wifew
mer Tuesday night in her suburban
south of Atlanta. It was the first of as
ders that would become Georgia's
killing this century.
On Wednesday, Barton bludgeoned to
two children from a previous marriage
day, he marched into two brokeragefe
city’s Buckhead commercial district and
with two handguns, killing nine people
ing 13 others. When police cornered Baits
later, he committed suicide.
“I'm afraid there’s a temptation to bee
cused on the horrible events of last week, 1
Doug Davis told about 400 mourners
Baptist Church, 11 miles west of Macon,#:!
Ann Barton grew up. “If we give into
tion, we do a great disservice to Leigh Am
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gun ban in America, that’s a debate they'll:f
the American people,” Powers said, i
Clock Inc. and Colt’s ManufacturingCi
Inc. are among the dozens of gun makers:,
lawsuits filed by Atlanta, 15 other cities a
counties since November. The suits "
makers recklessly or unfairly putgunsim!
of criminals.
Yet unlike the low-cost, high-powerecT
weapons used in Littleton and elsewhere,:;
used in Atlanta have drawn comparatively;
icism.
“If you believe the manufacture and salt?
is at all legitimate, certainly the Colt .45*
Clock would meet the description ofaal
weapons,” said Naomi Paiss, a spokespe:
Handgun Control Inc., a Washington group/
bies for gun control.
GOP split over taxpla
WASHINGTON (AP) — Repub
licans determined to pass $792 bil
lion in tax cuts met stiff opposition
yesterday from Democrats and the
White House making the case
against cuts of any size.
“We are much further apart
than the public understands,” Sen.
Phil Gramm, R-Texas, said.
GOP and Democratic moderates
still held out hope for an autumn
compromise that would give Amer
icans a tax cut over the next decade
and preserve needed government
spending programs.
But one moderate. Sen. John
Chafee, R-R.L, said there was a
good chance neither side would get
what it wanted.
“I think it’s a shame,” he said.
GOP leaders in both chambers
have given their deputies until the
end of the week, when Congress
departs for its August vacation, to
settle differences in House and Sen
ate tax cut bills and gain final pas
sage of a bill President Clinton has
pledged to veto.
“We are much
further apart
than the public
understands."
ing supporters a chancel
their case to theirconstituei
avoid a White House veto: ;
ny when Congress is not a:
The bills passed by the He-
Senate both total $792blot
over 10 years but differ in ill
The House offers an acr:
board 10-percent tax cut,
Senate would lower the 15
Charlo
Admini
U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm
R-Texas
The bill actually will not go to
the president until September, giv-
tax bracket to 14 percent
ginning in 2006, gradual
some income currently tan
percent into the lower brat,,
The White House and"
mocrats said the tax cuts#
up most of the estimated 51
in non-Social Securitysurplu
jected for the next decal;
would take away money
Medicare, education a
down the debt.
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sands of classified atomic
weapons codes to an unsecured
computer.
Lee has not been charged with
any crime.
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common practice for scientists to
download information from clas
sified computers and transfer it to
unclassified computers.
But he said he used three pass
words on his unsecured comput
er so “it’s almost impossible for
anybody to break in. \
sometimes I even had a
to break in myself.”
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for the espionage invesifj
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that authorities needed af
goat and as a Chinesepers®.
in Taiwan, “they think
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