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Show PAGE TEMPLAR TRUMPET, MAY 20, 1999 11 Please, keep our halls clean By: Jean Cluff When you're at school, do you notice how beautiful the school grounds look? The grass is so green and not a bit of trash lying anywhere. The be? We have trash cans in ev- enough to pick up after our- to throw away your trash. I halls all trash-fre- ery hall, maybe more, and not to mention at every entrance. selves. Im not trying to say that were not old enough, because we are. Thats just it; we are old enough to at least take the time to throw are rappers away, arent we? dont know if any of you have and not any gum or candy wrappers in sight. Then you wake up and smell reality. Yeah right, you wish!!! How would that be to walk down the halls of Manti High and see absolutely nothing lying around? Wow, I can't even believe to think how trashy we have all become. After lunch, after school, all there is is trash. How can this e, hate when Im walking down the hall and see Mr. Petersen or Mr. Miller pick1 ing up the trash that others have left behind them. Havent we ever learned the word re- spect? thought that we were in high school, and we were old I If could even convince I everyone in our school to pick at least one thing up every day, I would have succeeded in writing this. Students, please try to make just a small little effort ever gone to a school that has trash thrown everywhere, but its not that welcoming. You look down on the kids, and down at the school. The school year is almost over, and a new clean school year will come soon. Cant we start to clean up after ourselves and show our appreciation for our school ? -- thanks- Guns and our society: An unhealthy match being passed is because of the By: Trent Young and Anna Osmond These days we are hearing about guns being used in so many bizarre and different situ- why it has become so easy for these young people to get a gun and use it. ations. People are using guns to murder others on the street, in com enient stores, in public build-ing- s, a large majority of adults and ourclected officials are strongly in homes and ccn in schools. One of the most frightening facts about these situations is that quite a few of the gun holders are teenagers. You may wonder what has happened to these people that would have ever possessed them to carry or use a gun. but one of the questions we are curious about is Youd probably think that against the use of assault weapons by teens, at least thats what we thought and for all we know they may very well be. But if they are. why arent they passing the bills that will help in the prevention of these problems? One of the biggest reasons that some of these bills arent Nation Rifle Association lobby -ists. Their job is to go into the capitol and com ince the senators or representaties to ote for or against a certain bill. The used for hunting? Today many people are getting concealed weapon permits only to protect themselves from other people with guns, would they even need to do this if other's didn't have A them to begin with? NRA has one of the strongest lobbies ever and they are playing a large part in keeping some of these bills from getting have guns is because they are so easily accessible. The two boys from passed. Jonesborow Arkansas that The argument that the NRA uses is that the second article to the constitution gives people the freedom to own guns. We are both very' strong supporters of the freedom the constitution provides, however, the preamble to the constitution states that its purpose is to insure domestic tranquility . The constitution was passed in a time when guns were really used for protection and as a statement against the British. lovvev er. how often is a pistol large reason that teenagers opened fire in their school first went to one of the boys father to take his gun. Fortunately he had stored it properly and the y oung boys could not get it. They ended up causing the tragedy because one of the boy s grandfathers did have a gun that was easily accessible. We both feel that the last place in the world that a gun belongs is in a school building, it doesn't matter whose possession it is in. A spokesperson for the Jensen's wishes all graduates the best of luck in the future. Buy one afte one With coupon- - expires May 29, 1999 LctsaMiEaEiszi. 835-80- 00 Come in and check out our new specials! NRA said that he believ ed 'the Columbine shooting could have been prevented if a teacher would have had a concealed weapon on them." However, there was an armed guard on the premises of the school and it was not prev ented. Would it hav e been smart for a teacher to have a gun? That would just hav e been one more weapon in the school for the two teens to possibly get a hold of. In our opinion, guns in school SHOULD BE ILLEGAL! The only way that these things are going to stop is ifour government will take a stand. Why won't our Congressmen stand up for what they know to be right? Ignore the lobbyists and party line votes. Any reasonable person could see that it should be illegal for teens to have assault weapons, why can't our elected officials aeree? |