Politics, paranoia fuel war of words over guns
8:44am Tuesday, October 19, 2004
October 18, 2004 Albany (NY) Times Union It was July 1998. Newspapers were full of stories about a seeming rash of shootings in schools. About 40 representatives of law enforcement, public health and other fields were summoned to Washington, D.C., to talk about ways to deal with gun violence in America. Alan Lizotte, a University at Albany criminologist, recalls with certain satisfaction the way...