01/28  ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (UPI) -- Former White House Press
Secretary Jim Brady says the recent killings at a fast-food eatery
in Chicago's northwest suburbs adds more weight to arguments against
allowing people to own handguns.
   Brady, who was shot in the head by would-be assassin John W.
Hinckley Jr., was scheduled to appear Thursday on behalf of the
National Organization on Disability, which is honoring Arlington
Heights for its efforts on behalf of the disabled.
   Brady, Ronald Reagan's former presidential press secretary, was
critically wounded during Hinckley's 1981 assassination attempt on
Reagan in Washington, D.C.
   The appearance comes about three weeks after the bodies of seven
people were found in the coolers at a Brown's Chicken & Pasta
restaurant in nearby Palatine. Police reportedly have determined the
killings, which remain unsolved, were committed with at least one
.38-caliber handgun.
   "This has got to stop," Brady said.
   Brady, a Centralia native, said polls indicate 95 percent of
Americans support gun control.
   "In 1990 handguns were used to kill 10,567 people in the United
States and 68 people in Canada," Brady said.
   "I believe it says there are too many guns out there and they are
getting into the hands of the wrong people."