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THE WEEK, Page 20SOCIETYDealing from a Crooked Deck
New York state legislators seek to stamp out "killer cards"
Jeffrey Dahmer. Ted Bundy. David ("SON OF Sam") Berkowitz.
Collect 'em, trade 'em, memorize their stats. It's hard for a
mere baseball card to compete with the latest offering in candy
stores and comic-book shops: "killer cards" that feature
notorious mass murderers, complete with gory drawings and
graphic descriptions of their crimes. Some New York State
legislators, with the support of victims' rights groups, are
seeking to crack down on the unsavory trading cards. Their bill,
which parallels proposed legislation in a handful of other
states, would make it a misdemeanor to sell such cards to
minors. Argues sponsor Alan Hevesi, an assemblyman: "Where there
is excessive violence in a film, children are barred from
admission, and that's constitutionally protected." But Dean
Mullaney, a Forestville, Calif., publisher of a line of cards
featuring fbi agents and crooks, insists that such products do
not exalt criminals. "Silence of the Lambs won the Academy
Award," he says, "but it's not a glorification of cannibalism."