4 PLAIN DEALER, 'SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1990 3-CW Slayings load new round in gun control debate COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) A shooting spree that killed two children and critically wounded their father has touched off another round of debate over gun control. Advocates for a seven-day waiting period before gun purchases say their plan might have deterred John Bundy, but they contend it would keep the dangerously mentally ill from buying pistols. a control "cooling-off opponents period" argue would that not the have prevented the tragedy because Bundy bought the revolver in February did not use it until September. Last week, Bundy shot and I killed his exwife's 3-year-old daughter, Robyn Palmer, 4-year-old son, Casey Palmer.
Bundy wounded the children's father, Elsmere police Sgt. Robert Palmer, before not i sever but and Palmer shot and killed him. Palmer is in critical condition at a Cincinnati hospital. The shootings occurred as Congress prepares to vote on the "Brady bill," which would require the cooling-off period before a gun can be purchased. The measure, named for James Brady, the White House press secretary who was shot in a 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan, has cleared the House Judiciary Committee and could come on the floor for a vote in two weeks, said Susan Whitmore of Handgun Control Inc.
Rep. Romano Mazzoli, D-Louisville, was the only member of Kentucky's congressional delegation to vote for the measure two years ago. Rep. Carroll Hubbard, D- Mayfield, has joined Mazzoli and 150 House members in sponsoring the bill. Brady and his wife, Sarah, were in Kentucky on Friday and Saturday to lobby for the bill.
Ed Klecka, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association, said Wednesday that the circ*mstances leading to the killings in Elsmere illustrate why the Brady bill would not work. The rifle association is opposed to dangerously mentally ill people and felons having access to handguns, Klecka said. But current laws should have prevented Bundy from obtaining a gun, he said. Ohio and Kentucky laws follow the federal Gun Control Act of 1968, which its a felon or a person a court has judged mentally ill from owning a gun. Ted Bundy of Erlanger, who had his brother's power-of-attorney, said Wednes- day that he had never been appointed guardian.
Bundy said that as far as he knew, no court had ever judged his brother mentally ill or committed him to a mental had institution. 1983 Andy Onderko, associate director of the "I Veterans Administration Medical Center in over Chillicothe, said Bundy had always volun- nious tarily admitted himself to the facility and him? could come and go as he pleased. felon Hospital officials have said Bundy stayed at VA medical facilities off and on during the last six years. When he bought the gun, Bundy answered "no" to a question about his mental background on the U.S. Bureau of were Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms form.
The question asks "Have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective or have you ever been committed to a. mental insti- 40 .1 CHANDLER Grocery shopping A great blue heron. glides over the rain-swollen backwaters of the Chagrin River in Eastlake yesterday morning, following torrential downpours that doused Lake County Thursday night. 3 Tax break urged for forces in Mideast COLUMBUS (AP) Sen. John H.
Glenn said yesterday that Ohio should not collect state income taxes from military personnel assigned to duty near the Persian Gulf. He told a news conference he is proposing a similar federal tax break as part of a broader benefits package for U.S. personnel in the region. State Tax Commissioner Joanne Limbach said she agreed with Glenn's motives, but she pointed out some potential problems. "That's a touchy area," she said.
"What about the others in the service who have to. pay taxes? You have to worry about equity." Limbach said that if Glenn secures a federal exemption, it would extend to state taxes, which are tied to federal taxes. EPA seeks $20,720 to hire aide PD BUREAU COLUMBUS The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will ask the state Controlling Board Monday to approve a $20,720 personal services contract for Anthony J. Celebrezze former campaign spokeswoman. Approval would allow the EPA to employ Debbie Vivalo for months as its chief spokeswoman.
Vivalo quit as campaign press secretary in the spring. She would replace veteran EPA public information chief Al Franks, who took a job with Hameroff Mil, nthal Spence, a Columbus publ: relations firm. Her contract would run from Tuesday through Jan. 31, 1991. At the proposed rate, Vivalo's contract would be worth $60,000 if she worked a year.
EPA Deputy Director Maury Walsh conceded the amount seemed high but said extra money was included because as an independent contractor, was responsible for her own health and life insurance and other benefits. Walsh said EPA Director Richard Shank decided to hire a public information chief temporarily. even though it is a classified job. because a new administration will take over in January. That would mean a change in EPA directors and probably public information officers.
Those in classified jobs are on probation for six months, and it's easy to dump someone on probation, Walsh said. "Rich (Shank) felt it would be presumptuous of him to tell the next director who his own spokesperson would be, even though it's a classified position," Walsh said: 1. tution?" 4 Klecka said Bundy might have been prevented from buying a gun if a prosecutor done his job and prosecuted him for a attempted suicide. know that a lot of prosecutors skip this kind of thing. Suicide is a feloact, and so.
who didn't prosecute He sure would have been a convicted if he had been convicted. It just seems logical," the NRA spokesman said. argument is ridiculous, said Frank Trusty II, who was Kenton County commonwealth's attorney at that time. "People that tried to commit suicide taken to the hospital." Trusty said. "They weren't taken to the jail." He added that Kentucky's law against suicide had been stricken from the books before 1983.
'That's a touchy area. What about the others in the service who have to pay taxes? You have to worry about equity. State Tax Commissioner Joanne Limbach She said estimating the potential impact on state revenues was impossible because the number of Ohioans in the gulf region is not known. Overall, Ohioans in the military pay $35 million to $40 million a year in state income taxes, she said. Glenn returned this week from a visit to Saudi Arabia and other areas of the Middle East, where he visited U.S.
troops. While morale was high, living conditions are tough, he said. In one location, he was told the temperature was more than 124 degrees. Glenn said he was surprised by the number of Ohioans he saw. He visited about 25 on the battleship Wisconsin.
Glenn said he had recommended other military benefits, including free postage and a AP Cincinnati Mayor Charles J. Luken, right, debated, J. Kenneth Blackwell, far left, yesterday in Cincinnati. The two are running for Ohio's 1st District congressional seat. U.S.
House hopefuls compete for Cincinnati business support CINCINNATI (AP) Congressional candidates Charles J. Luken and Republican J. Kenneth Blackwell competed for business' support in a joint appearance yesterday before the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. Both told a' chamber lunch that they favor a cut in the gains tax. Both also favor cutting government spending, and they called Congress inefficient.
4 When the audience asked Luken, a conservative Democrat, to describe where he disagreed with Republican views, he replied: "Party to me is secondary. What matters to me is common sense, and sometimes the Democratic Party is not for common sense." In previous bids for office, Luken ran as an independent. Luken, who is mayor of Cincinnati, said he supported a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced fed- Officer t- used iron, man says DAYTON (AP) A Detroit man yesterday identified former Dayton. police officer John Gamble as the man who burned him with a clothes iron. David Greer also showed the Dayton Civil Service Board what he said were scars from burns inflicted by Gamble, while two other police officers held him during a Jan.
12 drug raid on an apartment Gamble was fired for his role in the alleged incident and is appealing his dismissal. Greer, 18, told the board he did not talk to Gamble during the interrogation. "All I can remember doing was hollering," Greer said. Gamble's lawyer, Frederick Davis said later Gamble never said he burned anyone. "What he admitted is that there was a taunting session in which this guy (Greer) threatened him and his family, and he did overreact," Davis said.
"He took an iron and he tapped the guy with it while they were arguing. He never saw the guy get burned. He never saw him flinch. He didn't scream." Davis said Gamble acknowledged that he "lost control" and mistreated Greer due to stress. He said Gamble's appeal was an effort to tell his side of the story.
Greer, who is serving a three-to15-year term for drug trafficking in connection with his arrest following the raid, invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination several times during yesterday's hearing. He acknowledged that one of two people who accompanied him from Detroit to Dayton last January was carrying a bag with three handguns and some drugs. Police said they recovered crack cocaine and an Uzi machine gun. Greer admitted failing the first of two polygraph tests. He said he thought he flunked the test because he told the examiner Gamble had dropped a weight on his stomach although he didn't know who was responsible.
Greer said he didn't show his burns to to the officer who investigated the alleged incident or to anyone at the jail after he was arrested. a waiver of a reduction in pay for some troops who technically were assigned to lower -paying field duty. Married servicemen who normally live at home are not receiving their living allowance, which Glenn said averages $177 a month. "Some of them actually took a pay cut," he said. He also noted they are not getting combat pay, which would average about $110 a month and be exempt from federal and state taxes.
To receive it, President Bush would have to declare them in "imminent danger." Glenn said the trade embargo against Iraq should be expanded to include a cutoff of travel and communications for nations that airlift supplies to Iraq. Air Force officer sues DAYTON (AP) An officer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base says he completed his Reserve Officer Training Corps training and accepted a commission even though he was troubled by anti beliefs. Second Lt. James A. Goblirsch, an architect who attended Notre Dame University on an ROTC scholarship, has asked U.S.
District Judge Walter H. Rice to order his release from the Air Force as a conscientious objector. "My participation in ROTC was held to a minimum because my beliefs were already bothering me." Goblirsch said in court records. "It was tearing me up that I was lying." Goblirsch offered to reimburse the government the estimated for objector status $25,000 to $30,000 his education cost, or to serve in some area unrelated to the military. He said he accepted a commission as a second lieutenant in December 1987 because doing otherwise was "just not financially feasible." On March 1989, Goblirsch notified base personnel of his intention to apply for discharge as a conscientious objector.
In June. the Air Force denied Goblirsch's request. concluding he "acquired his belief prior to his commissioning and entry on active duty, yet readily compromised" his belief to continue his education. eral budget. Luken and Blackwell are running for the seat held by Luken's father, Rep.
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