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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1, 1989 Opinion Letters to the Editor Mil IIBIUMI II 4 1 What is your opinion? This newspaper welcomes opinions from its readers concerning any subject. Anything of a libelous nature or defamation of character will not be considered for publication. Please limit your letters to 300 words or less. Letters must be signed and include your full name, address and telephone number. Thank you for your interest. Thanks beautiful antique flintocks, cheap surplus guns and expensive custom guns, small-easil- y concealed guns and guns too big to hide, small caliber or big bore. The anti-gufanatics are trying to nibble away at any edge they can find. This fight is important to all gun owners, not just the 30,000 Utahns with concealed carry permits. Sincerely, The language on this bill is Ott family complicated and technical and few people will bother to read it. The full official text is available PTA Dear Editor: We would like to thank everyone for the overwhelming show of love and support at the time of our loss. We appreciate all the phone calls and visitors, and also all the flowers, money and cards. Thanks for all the concern and special consideration shown to our family. The Jim Dont sign n from the Utah Lieutenant gun petition Governors office at http: To all Utah Residents: governor. state. ut.usit gover Refuse to sign the PTA Ballot webinitiat ive2.htm You need to review this and initiative Safe to learn, Safe to worship act. It only makes it tell everyone not to sign the petisafe for the bad guys- - the worst tion to put this on next years danger is that stalkers, rapists, ballot. You especially need to talk carjackers, kidnappers and other with parents of school age chilassorted bad guys will be able to dren and others who attend PTA plan their criminal acts for an meetings and encourage everyarea where they are certain no one to speak out against this inione will be able to defend them- tiative in the PTA meetings! No one should doubt the sinselves. This is not aimed at Littleton, cerity, or the enthusiasm of the Colorados Harris and Klebold people behind this measure, but type juvenile gunmen, or serial most of them do not have the rapists, or murderers, or faintest idea of what they are carjackers, or kidnappers. This trying to get passed. Many reis aimed only at 30,000 Utahns ally dont care about yotir gun with concealed carrying permits rights either, so you may have a who have been cleared by the hard time convincing people. Bottom line- - this is part of a Department of Public Safety and passed an FBI background national effort being pushed by check.The bad guys are already the big national teachers union, banned from having concealed and supported by the usual susguns in school, churches, or any- pects who are using this as just where else by existing laws, but another step to take away all you wont hear that. You will guns from honest citizens. only be told that this new law is Submitted by Trent Glazier & the Utah Shooting needed to make our schools and churches safe, which it will not. Sports Council Utah laws already ban guns in schools except for law enforceGun control ment officers and carefully screened permit holders not to bring their guns. Even radios strongest supporter of children and safety, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, has de- cided that allowing law abiding citizens with permits to carry concealed weapons is a good idea, including in schools and churches! Read Dr. Lauras col- umn from the October 10, 1999 Deseret News. This is a major assault on the ability of law abiding citizens to carry arms for their lawful as well as part of a larger campaign to relentlessly enact restrictions on legal manufacture, sale, transfer, ownership, possesion, or use of any type of gun by any person. This includes deer rifles and trap or skeet shotguns, ugly assault rifles and self-defens- e, Dear Editor: This letter is about the debate in the U.S. Congress about gun control. First, I dont think the Federal Congress is the place to address the issue. A federal law will apply across the land and in those places where possession of guns has never presented a problem. Such problems should be addressed on a local level by cities and towns and only ifthere is a problem. There are practically no home burglaries in Kanab and that is probably because the potential burglars know that there is a gun in almost every home. Please write your congressman and ask them to leave us alone. Joseph L. Johnson Kanab, Utah Not gonna take it Dear Editor: Im mad as hell and Im not going to take it anymore. Its time for this letter and, in fact, it is long overdue. As a resident of Kane County and a taxpayer, I do not want, nor I feel we need to go into debt any deeper than we are at the present time for a new jail. However, I will agree that we need to do something to the jail to make it a safe place for the employees to work. This doesnt require a new jail. Concerns of overcrowding can be remedied by sending any prisoners either back to Draper, or to Purgatory, or as a matter of fact, we could send them to any of the new facilities in the state. Im sure they could use the residents, along with the $35 per day. This would provide more space for our own prisoners. If, by chance, we need more room, then let us sent our extra prisoners to the Purgatory facility. It may be cheaper for us to do that anyway, and wc could help out our sister county in the process. Why doesnt the county charge the prisoners for their stay in the jail? They are the ones that violated the laws. We as taxpayers didnt make them violate the laws, but yet we are the ones that pay for them to watch television, play with the computers and be protected from the elements because they lack the integrity to abide by the laws the rest of us are required to respect and obey. Oh, wait I forget, non-coun- everybody in jail is innpcent, or wrongly accused, sorry, my mistake. Concerns about security could be remedied by remodeling the present jail. We already have the building and it would be cheaper than constructing a new jail. Now, onto the proposed new City PlazaMonument Headquarters that the city government is planning on building to Southern Utah news AAA Deadlines AAA FRIDAY 1 PM See LETTERS, Page 5 ty OtOftOW The Southern Utah News (ISSN No. 0049-165is published every Wednesday at 26 N. Main St., Kanab, Utah 84741 . The SUNews serves Kane County, Utah, and the Arizona Strip. Address communications to 26 N. Main St., Kanab, Utah 84741 , or Fax telephone Advertising rates available upon request. Second Class postage paid at Kanab, Utah 84741 . Newsstand price is 50c per copy. Yearly subscription rates to Kane County addresses and Fredonia and Moccasin, Arizona, $22; others $30 (out of U.S. $50). The SUNews reserves the right to edit or reject any advertisement or submitted items. 9) 435-644-290- 0, 435-644-292- 6. 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