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State Sen. Jack H. Backman (D-Brookline), who is sponsoring legislation similar to last year's which would ban any gun with a barrel shorter than ten inches, once again has the support of Boston Police Commissioner Robert J. di Grazia and Middlesex County Sheriff John J. Buckley, whose narrow victory in the last election has been interpreted as a victory for gun control...
Janet Wohlberg has joined with Litsas, Backman, Buckley and others in combating what they call America's "gun culture." They are reacting against values that have a lot to do with the lingering myth of the "frontier spirit" but little to do with modern urban society. "Our country has changed since the days of the wild, wild, west when men wore a six-gun strapped to their hip for protection," Buckley says...
Peter D. Nichols, an aide to Buckley and another founder of People vs. Handguns, says, "It's the kind of thing that will take years. If we banned handguns, there would be no immediate effect, but most people obey most laws, so hopefully young people would grow up used to the idea of living without guns...
Meanwhile, gun control advocates like Buckley are working for an increased emphasis on furloughs and rehabilitiation outside prison walls in further penal and judicial reforms, which they say will help remedy the social and economic problems behind the man "responsible" for misusing...
...meantime, educators hope that they will get some relief in an amendment by Senators Buckley and Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island to clarify ambiguities in the law. The amendment will deny students access to parents' financial statements; some parents are just old-fashioned enough not to want to disclose the family's finances to their children. The Buckley-Pell clarifications will also guarantee the privacy of letters of recommendation and other confidential materials - but only those already in the files. Future recommenders will simply have to shape their letters with the knowledge that their subjects may read them...