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- <text id=90TT1710>
- <title>
- July 02, 1990: American Notes:Florida
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 02, 1990 Nelson Mandela:A Hero In America
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- American Notes
- FLORIDA
- A Madman's Deadly Spree
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Construction worker James Pough did more than kill ten
- people and wound seven in Jacksonville last week. He also shot
- holes in the gun lobby's rationale for opposing even modest
- efforts to keep firearms out of the hands of violent criminals.
- </p>
- <p> In 1971 Pough pleaded guilty to the fatal shooting of a man.
- Yet he was able to buy the two handguns and acquire a 30-cal.
- assault-style rifle that he used in his murderous rampage.
- </p>
- <p> The National Rifle Association has urged voters to reject
- a bill that would require a three-day waiting period to check
- the background of potential gun purchasers. If such a check had
- uncovered Pough's criminal record, he would not have been able
- to buy the guns he used last week. Asking gun buyers to wait
- a few days to complete their purchases seems eminently
- reasonable if it helps prevent madmen like Pough from going off
- on homicidal binges.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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