Top of PageGun Policy News, 14 August 2000
Health Experts Pointing to Dangers of Violent Video Games
14 August 2000
Join Together Online gun violence web site (Boston)
Whether or not Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joseph I. Lieberman chooses to make an issue of media violence, as he often has in the past, his candidacy may add momentum to a growing movement that sees a demonstrable link between electronic entertainment imagery and gun violence.
Sen. Lieberman's involvement with the issue dates at least to 1993, when he called for the first hearing on the impact of violent videos on children. While little of substance emerged... (GunPolicy.org)
Read More: Join Together Online gun violence web site (Boston)
Straw May Permit Pistol Shooting at Manchester Games
14 August 2000
Times (UK)
The Home Secretary is considering proposals for pistol shooting to be reintroduced as a sport at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester without compromising the controls brought in after the Dunblane massacre. Home Office officials have confirmed that the Government has received applications from overseas sporting organisations to bring pistols into Britain for the competition. It is looking at ways of allowing the British team to train in this country rather than... (GunPolicy.org)
Gun Control Becomes Issue for Campaign
14 August 2000
New Jersey Star-Ledger
The movement started last August, when a Short Hills woman on a Long Island Rail Road car scribbled three words on an envelope: "Million Mom March."
Nine months later in May, hundreds of thousands of people in pink-lettered T-shirts, pushing strollers and toting signs, brought those words to life in the nation's capital. The goal was to make gun control an issue in the 2000 elections. On the one-year anniversary of the march's conception, the movement is still... (GunPolicy.org)
Webb Renews Call for Sensible Gun Laws
14 August 2000
Denver Rocky Mountain News (Colorado)
LOS ANGELES — Denver Mayor Wellington Webb stood before a memorial to gun-violence victims Sunday as he renewed his fervent call for Congress to act on "common-sense" gun-control measures.
Webb joined other mayors in a huge hall at the Los Angeles Convention Center, standing before a backdrop of 4,001 names that make up the Wall of Gun Deaths — a precise listing of victims killed in 100 selected cities since the April 20, 1999, shootings at Columbine High... (GunPolicy.org)
Greater Gun Use Puts Bystanders in Line of Fire
14 August 2000
Daily Yomiuri (Japan)
A shooting incident Monday involving more than 10 armed gang members, who attacked the office of a right-wing organization in central Tokyo, killing two people and wounding five others, showed that guns are now becoming more of a threat to the lives of ordinary citizens.
However, although the number of guns in the possession of gangs is believed to have increased in recent years, police have been confiscating fewer firearms.
This indicates that current efforts to... (GunPolicy.org)
Boy Shoots Himself With Cop's Gun
14 August 2000
APB News
CHAMBLEE, Georgia — A Georgia police officer who apparently allowed a 13-year-old boy to handle his gun remains suspended while officials determine if he will be charged with criminal violations after the boy killed himself with the weapon.
Tim Heiberger of the Chamblee Police Department has not yet been charged, said Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter.
Porter said the preliminary autopsy indicates that the shooting was an accident, and that there are... (GunPolicy.org)
