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Show DAILY "HERALD Tuesday, August 31, 2004 Guns GOP Continued from Al Continued from Al - meant the war was not a cotK ' ventknal one, and neither , would be its ending. There was no misunderstanding Guliani's meaning as the former mayor recalled the day the president stood atop a , pile of rubble at Ground Zero and vowed to avenge the attacks. ' He likened Bush to Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill for holding fast to his convictions in the face of ridicule. " Some call it stubbornness. I call it principled leadership, he said. Bush, he added, "sees world -terrorism for the evil that it is," Giuliani said, "John Kerry has no such clear, precise and consistent vision." The delegates met at Madison Square Garden, four miles from, where the World Trade Center twin towers once stood gath' ering under security so tight that umbrellas were banned from the hall as potential ' weapons. With polls showing Bush's leadership in the war on terror a political strength, a parade of speakers repeatedly used their turn at the podium to summon memories of Sept. 11, 2001. Timmy is my hero. I am honored to share him with you," said Tara Stackpole, widow of a firefighter who went into, the burning towers but never came out. "Just as I am . proud to lend America my oldest son, Kevin, who is headed to Iraq in December with his Navy unit," sfye said before the light$dimmetf for a moment of silent'remembrance for more than 2,t00 who perished in the attacks. : In a prehide to the evening's political oratory, delegates ratified Bush's unflinchingly conservative platform.. It, too, lauded his response to the terrorist attacks, declaring, "The president's most solemn duty is to protect our country. George W. Bush has kept that charge." " Envisioning a new "owner- addiit endorsed also era," ship tional tax relief and major changes to Social Security allowing individuals to use a portion of their payroll taxes to establish personal retirement accounts. The platform calls for constitutional amendments to ban gay marriages and abortions. It also expressed opposition to civil unions fcfTgays: McCain and Giuliani were the evening's principalprime-tim- e speakers, a reflection of their ability to command political support outside the president's conservative base. Both men took pains to reach out to Democrats. And while Giuliani ridiculed Kerry repeatedly, McCain offered no criticism of the president's Democratic rival, hjs longtime Senate colleague and a man he calls a friend. But he gave a endorsement of Bush as a wartime president. Critics of the invasion of Iraq believe incorrectly that Bush faced a choice between the status quo and war, McCain said. "But there was no status quo to be left alone," he said. "... It was between a war and a graver threat. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not our critics abroad. Not our political opponents." Since the aayfjterrorists attacked, McCain said f Bush, "He his not wavered. He has not flinched from the hard choices. He will not yield. And neitherwillwe." Giuliani, who achieved nation-- t al prominence for his ship of the city in the hours and days after the Sept. 11 attacks, said in prepared remarks that since that day, "President Bush has remained rock solid. It doesnt matter how he is demo-nized- "v the Delta Center ' t j"' City, which forbids weapons, would be violating the law. Shurtleff promised that if the bin passed, he would drop his appeal of Hilder's ruling, t Instead, the appealed contin-- ued, but with both sides limiting their arguments to whether the ban violates the state Con' stitution. Central to that question is the state Constitution's Article X, section 4, which states, "The location and establish- inert by existing laws of the University of Utah, and the Agricultural College, are here : . has rights of its own and that the only power the Legislature has over the university is fiscal. . During arguments, Justice M Parrish twice questioned the lawyers about how the Utah provision meshed with the federal Constitution's guarantee of the right to keep and bear ', arms. Neither attorney thought that significant. Burnett said it E . Lake. in Satt by confirmed, and an the ' rights, immunities, franchises and endownents heretofore anted or conferred, are reby perpetuated unto said University and Agricultural College, respectively." Burnett argued that means the university has no autonomy and is subject to existing.1 laws. . Sullivan said it meant the opposite, that the university A7 . would matter only if the uni- - '. versiry had autonomy, which it doesnt Sullivan said the ban didn't prevent peo- - : pie from possessing firearms elsewhere. The justices took the matter under advisement, and will issue a ruling at an undetermined time. The 28--y ear-ol- d campus gun ' ban made its way to court in 2002, when the University of uni-versi- .. I iTfyfryTTjn 444A? WJJJi Hihi RNING 1 GREAT TAX DEDUCTION FAST FREE TOWING OR NOT Tokd Sck:!:rsh!?s WE DO ALL PAPERWORK fcr Utsh County Xah filed what it characterized as a friendly lawsuit in U.S. District Court, asking a judge to uphold the ban. The university took the action after Shurtleff said the prohibition was at odds with state law. US. District Judge Dale Kim-bafound that because most of the university's claims had to do with state law, the matter should be decided in state court. 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