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The Crime Bill: What it means
The Associated Press
The $30.2 billion, six-year crime bill would authorize:
—Spending $13.45 billion for state, local and federal police, including $8.8 billion for a matching program to help hire 100,000 new law enforcement officers to carry out community policing.
—Tossing third-time violent and drug felons in prison for life if the third conviction is in federal court, allowing the release of some over 70 years old after they served 30 years.
—Spending $9.85 billion for prisons, including $7.9 billion for state prison grants and $1.8 billion to reimburse states for incarcerating criminal aliens.
—Banning 19 named types of assault-style firearms and scores of others deemed by the government to meet assault-style characteristics, effective the day the bill is signed. It would limit magazine capacity to 10 rounds. It would exempt 650 named firearms and all guns and magazines legally owned when the law took effect. Because magazines have no serial numbers,
the government would have to prove that a magazine was made or purchased after the bill was enacted.
—Spending $6.9 billion for crime prevention programs, including $1 billion for drug courts. The prevention efforts include $1.6 billion for the Violence Against Women Act, including money for shelters, and $1.6 billion for flexible Local Partnership Act grants.
—Allowing some non-violent, first-time drug offenders to avoid mandatory minimum 5- and 10-year federal penalties. This would be limited to those who use no gun or threat of violence, are not organizers and never served more than 90 days in jail for another crime.
—Creating more than 50 new federal death penalty crimes. Many carried that penalty before the Supreme Court overturned capital punishment in 1972. But some would be new, including carjacking slayings, drive-by shooting murders and major drug-trafficking, even when the trafficker is not directly connected to a specific death.
Guns take years of potential lives
Firearm-related deaths on the rise
ATLANTA—Firearms annually waste more than 1 million years of potential life, the national Centers for Disease Control reported yesterday.
The Associated Press
Each year, the CDC examines the leading causes of death and years lost due to injuries, cancer and heart disease. The agency added firearm-related deaths for a look at years lost between 1980 and 1991.
The CDC computes potential lost life by subtracting a person's age at death from age 65, the benchmark for retirement.
In 1991, guns cost 1,072,565 years of potential life, up 13.6 percent since 1980, the agency said. In 1980, there were 33,780 firearm-related deaths and 944,125 years lost from guns.
"We are destroying our future with firearms," said the CDC's director, David Satcher. "It's not just lives lost, but lives injured or maimed ...
children who are too afraid to play in the streets."
Nearly 75 percent of the 13.6 percent increase was due to murder, the CDC said. Among the leading causes of death, only complications of AIDS claimed more American lives, said Dr. Patrick Kachur of the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
Suicides attributed to guns increased 20 percent, from 15,396 in 1980 to 18,526 in 1991. The years lost in that category increased by 10.5 percent. Data suggest that suicide among the elderly is at a rate not seen since the Depression.
Much of the murder increase came in the late 1980s as more young adults died in gunfire, Kachur said.
Donna Shalala, the secretary of health and human services, said the CDC report sent a powerful message to "take handguns out of the hands of our children and assault weapons off our streets."
Satcher said it was "entirely accidental" that the report was released the day of a key vote in the Senate on President Clinton's long-stalled crime bill, which includes a provision for limiting assault-style guns.
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