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- <text id=89TT0776>
- <title>
- Mar. 20, 1989: American Notes:Denver
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 20, 1989 Solving The Mysteries Of Heredity
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 31
- American Notes
- DENVER
- Gun Control at The Altar
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Parishioners of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in
- Denver got an unusual proposal last year from their pastor. If
- they would turn in their guns, the Rev. Marshall Gourley told
- them, he would give $100 for each of them. Tired of officiating
- at the funerals of shooting victims, the priest has mounted a
- crusade against handgun violence.
- </p>
- <p> Starting with a bankroll of $2,000, Gourley managed to
- collect 35 handguns, four shotguns and $800 in special donations
- before running out of money last week. Some of the gun traders
- could not be paid, but they did not seem to mind. Yet not all
- of them had the purest motives. One man vowed to use his cash
- bounty as a down payment on an assault rifle. Another threatened
- to kill the priest. Still others bought cheap $30 guns and sold
- them to Gourley for a $70 profit.
- </p>
- <p> Undaunted, Gourley hopes some good will come out of his
- efforts: he wants to melt down the weapons for a new church
- bell. "We just want people to think Denver is not the O.K.
- Corral," he said.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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