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Taking aim at bullets could put dent in growing gun violence
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Contributor | mtrz |
Last Edited | mtrz Apr 24, 2007 10:35pm |
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Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
News Date | Friday, April 20, 2007 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Sacramento — The deadliest weapon being sold in gun shops these days is not the old .44 magnum revolver immortalized by Clint Eastwood's "Dirty Harry." Definitely not. Nor is it even the 9-millimeter Glock semiautomatic used by the mass murderer at Virginia Tech.
The most lethal weapon is a bullet.
It's true, guns don't kill people. Bullets do.
Deny ammunition to a handgun, and it becomes about as lethal as a tack hammer.
Or as freshman Assemblyman Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles) puts it: "Like humans need oxygen to breathe, firearms need ammo to function. Without it, the worst thing you can do with a Tech-9 is throw it across the room and hope you hit somebody. |
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