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control, Baliles said the proposals he’s seen "won’t work.” New York has had gun control laws on the books for 40 years without reducing crime while D.C.’s gun control law, one of the strongest in the nation, hasn’t dented crime rates there either, he said.
‘‘1 am in fa^or of mandatory sentences for using guns in the commission of crime,” Baliles added.
“A “get tough” attitude toward crime is the keynote of Jerry Baliles' campaign for attorney general. “The crime increase in Virginia is unacceptable," he emphasized. But Baliles wouldn’t attack the problem with uniform sentencing as proposed by Republican gubernatorial candidate Marshall Coleman and supported by Durrette. He described Coleman’s proposal as ‘‘a political promise that won’t work,”
Rather than having specific sentences for specific crimes committed by anyone anywhere in the state, Baliles said he favors “punishment
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