PN> I received in the mail a teen safety kit produced by Work/Family 
PN> Directions
PN> Inc., which is funded by AT&T's Family Care Development Fund.
PN> After viewing the tapes and reading the materials, I noted that the 
PN> "Guns
PN> and other weapons" chapter was prepared with information supplied by
PN> Deborah B. Prothrow-Stith, MD. (Assistant Dean for Government and 
PN> Community
PN> Programs & Professor of Public Health Practices at Harvard School of 
PN> Public
PN> Health at Harvard University).
PN> Prothrow-Stith who has worked on such projects as Community Violence
PN> Prevention Project, Neighborhood Health Centers Violence Prevention 
PN> Project
PN> and Hands Without Guns media campaign. She has made the statement 
PN> that she
PN> "hates guns and sees no reason why anyone should ever own one."
PN> Even more troubling are comments by Prothrow-Stith in an April 18, 
PN> 1996
PN> N.Y. Times News Service article titled: "Income inequality, higher
PN> mortality rates linked". The article reported that the poorer an 
PN> individual
PN> is the higher the mortality rate. 
    She ignores what every street cop knows: that slum neighborhoods put up 
with a lot more crime than suburban people would!  Slum people just refuse to 
help themselves by helping the police help them...they won't testify, won't 
talk about criminals.
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