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Other views on
gun control issue
• I am writing in response to
Elizabeth Preston’s June 1 guest
column that discussed gun control
issues in America.
I have lived around guns all of
my life. When I was little, I was
taught how to shoot one and was
taught the need for respect of
them. Unlike many Americans, I
have no fear of guns; I simply fear
some of the people behind them.
I am not referring to policemen,
hunters or people simply trying to
protect themselves and their
loved ones. Perhaps Preston did
not consider just what she stated,
but her conclusion was “Guns
Kill.” That is very interesting be
cause in all the years I have been
around them, I have never seen
one spontaneously go off and kill
someone of its own accord.
The plain and simple truth is
that people kill one another, not
guns. People killed one another
long before guns were ever in
vented. There are things known
as weapons (and there are quite a
variety of them) that people have
used from the dawn of time. If
there were no guns we would sim
ply find another way to kill, and
please don’t doubt for a minute
that we would.
How I do wish that the world
we lived in allowed for us to
speak to complete strangers and
leave our doors and windows un
locked at night. The plain and
simple fact is that there is rape,
violence and murder in our soci
ety. Crime is running rampant
and there is nothing that we can
do to stop it with overcrowded
prisons and a bureaucratic judi
cial system. Our Congress seems
more willing to pass tough legis
lation to restrict our rights than
to get serious about the real is
sues. Preston stated that the
framers of the Constitution did
not mean for everyone to have
guns, that they addressed the
may be all that
left.
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• In reference to Elizabeth
Preston’s advocating strict gun
control in America I’d like to
make a few counter-points.
Once you divorce yourself from
the emotional and political as
pects of this controversial is
sue, there are some basic prob
lems with this policy.
Gun violence isn’t the real is
sue, but merely a symptom of the
problem: the person who uses the
gun to commit crime in the first
place. Guns have been readily
available in the past, while gun
violence is a relatively new prob
lem. If you were able to outlaw
all guns, you would have fewer
guns than we currently have to
day, but this would merely push
the gun trade underground,
much like illegal drugs are sold
on the streets. Criminals would
not cease to have guns, merely
the law-abiding citizen. If pun
ishment for gun-related crime re
ally was bad enough to deter the
criminal from committing it in
the first place we wouldn’t be
having this debate. Gun control
would only disarm the hunters,
collectors and weekend sport-
shooters, while guns would be as
available as illegal drugs are to
day. If it exists and there is a
market for it, be it abortion,
drugs or alcohol, making it illegal
won t make it go away.
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• Elizabeth Preston holds a
very idealistic and left-wing view
of guns, their purpose, and the
methods of control. I also find
many of her statements one-sided
and unfounded. On the issue of a
total and complete ban of all
firearms — if a bill of this type
was ever introduced in Congress,
it would never make it. The NRA,
Amerasians
Continued from Page 2
abroad.”
“My father left for the
United States already,”
Tran Viet True says through
a translator. Like all of the
Amerasians, he speaks little
or no English. “I know noth
ing about my father. I am
not angry with my father. I
want to go to the United
States to meet with my fa
ther so I can get an educa
tion.”
The stories told at the
Amerasian Transit Center
are much the same: Their
mothers abandoned them or
are dead. Father unknown.
Raised by a grandmother or
other relatives or friends.
Some are impostors seek
ing a better life in America.
It is often hard to sort out the
truth. The Amerasians have
learned to lie to survive.
While they all say they
want to be reunited with
their fathers, officials be
lieve that may have been
the case when they were
children, but now as young
adults it is a secondary rea
son.
“The truth of the matter is
the Amerasians here don’t
have a stable life and they
want to seek some opportuni
ties in the United States,”
says Le Ba Tung, assistant
director of the transit center.
“And the seeking of their fa
ther is just the final thought.”
Ly Thi Huong is one of
the Amerasians bom of Viet
namese mothers and black
American servicemen, a dou
ble curse in Vietnam. “I
have no more information
about him,” she says. “My
father left before I was
bom.”
states’ rights issue; but I am sure
that they never expected gangs,
drug dealers and serial killers. If
someone was to ever break into
my home and threaten to harm
me or someone I love then yes, I
would shoot them. I would rather
explain the “bloody corpse” of a
burglar to my children than for
them to be hurt or killed them
selves. If you think that is wrong,
then I am sorry, but that is be
tween me and my maker. Let’s
pray it never happens. A prayer
t we nave.
as much as Preston would like ft
believe, is not a minority groui
making a lot of noise, but a stron[
organization with many support
ers throughout America. Ameri
cans have grown up wit!
firearms, and they are a parto:
our heritage. If, in the beginning
firearms were kept solely in the
military, then today a ban woulc
work, ffhat is not the case.
Preston forgot to think about
the millions of hunters in thi
country that would no longer bi
able to hunt for food or game. If
wild game were no longer hunt
ed, the population would ex
plode, causing multiple other
problems we are not yet ready
to handle at this time.
Preston also made the state
ment that guns kill. I have yet to
this day seen a gun get up on its
own accord and fire at a person.
There must be an individual on
the end of that gun holding it,
aiming it and firing it. Thus the
firearm is only the method by
which the killing has occurred
Knives also kill, but you don’t see
anyone trying to ban knives.
The answer is not to ban
firearms, but to educate people on
the proper use of the weapon and
the laws that surround owner
ship. I have never fired any of my
weapons in anger at another hn
man. I have been educated of the
E roper use, cleaning and storage
y my Dad, a former police offi
cer. Hie thought that on day my
owning a firearm might be illegal
makes me furious!
Also, human life must mean
something once again before the
killing will stop. As long as the
court system and the American
people continue to say that it is
all right to kill another human as
long as you have an excuse, then
the killing will go on. Even with a
ban, those how really want a gun
will find a way to get the gun.
Robin L. Chance
Class-of
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