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Show DIXIESUNNEINS.COM - 3 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST Gun confrol ensures'siudenis feel in control BY TAYLOR LEWIS flu l tlewisdsn 1 - In an . f I. , (- ,L ,, ., unpre- - , A- t- - tfl world, i guns are not the ,,, ,. , I F. , , dictable 1 -, ---- , -- . f ,, , t 4 , g enemy on school i tA -0- 1 ,i ,, I rs,,.,,,,,. 'f . ' ) . campuses. 7 Dixie State University, along with all other univer- - ! sities and colleges in Utah, A pistol with three bullets and a clip displayed on a table. allows students to carry said she feels safer knowing DSU permits concealed carries. concealed guns; however, 16 states ban carrying in public places, so how have been 14 school shoota concealed weapon on are students on campus ings throughout several campus. any different? Students college campuses in CaliI As a student, was are still required by law to fornia, where concealed relieved to hear that DSU's a for concealed carry carry is banned. Permitting apply the use of concealed carry campus permits concealed permit and undergo the same background checks. on a college campus gives carry. Aside from entitling stustudents and faculty the According to the National Conference of State dents to the same benefits chance to protect themselves, whereas banning Legislatures, Utah is one of as the average adult, those students also have the right it leaves innocent people only 10 states in the U.S. that does not give unito want to protect themvulnerable. versities and colleges the selves and take action if Although campus police ban to concealed authority necessary. carry guns, they won't on because for to Students carry campus According always be there to proit is considered a public Concealed Carry, Utah has tect students and faculty. With over 8,000 students place. legalized the use of conBecause a university is cealed carry since the 2006 walking around campus at fall semester. It has been as a recognized public any given time, only six officers are registered under over 10 years since this place, a student is no different than the average adult law was enacted, and not DSU's campus police who carries a concealed one Utah college campus personnel. That roughly in has faced an other act violence areas. translates into one officer of gun public There are aimed civilians as a result; however, there per 1,400 students. Stu . 1 ' Features Editor Taylor Lewis er , , dents who have concealed carry permits only add to the number of people willing to take down an active shooter or even save lives. The same can also be said for those who want to feel protected inside student housing. Many people have firearms inside their home in case they need to defend themselves against an intruder. During the school year, students call their dorms home, so why shouldn't they be allowed to protect themselves? While some argue pepper spray or stun guns are just as effective, most people end up hurting themselves instead of the perpetrator. According to Model Mugging, during a stress situation, ensuring the spray canister is facing the right way could cause delays and not checking could result in the person accidentally spraying him or herself in the face. Even if the spray is used conectly, it takes a few minutes to harm the attacker, and the pepper spray can incapacitate the victim as well. Stun guns can also be ineffective during an assault. According to "Tasers often don't work, review of LAPD incidents finds" by the Tribune News Service, the metal probes that shoot out of a stun gun can miss the target completely, or if they do land on the person, they're able to rip the probes off their body, rendering the weapon useless. Also, stun guns do not have the same effect on people, especially those who are under the influence of drugs or who are mentally Both of these weapons are also banned on certain 11, college campuses, along with guns. Rather than leave the college commiinity defenseless, schools should adopt the same policies DSU currently offers students who want to bring a concealed carry on campus. Trump needs to be impeached after Apraio pardon i BY to happen. While highly inappropriate, Arpaio's pardon is not all that different from other recent controversial clemency decisions, and, like them, falls well short of making the president impeachable. JEFFREY CROUCH TNS ) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Send letters to the editor to DixieSundixie.edu. Letters to the editor are accepted and may be published in the newspaper andor dixiesunnews.com. The guidelines for letters are as follows: Submissions should be no longer than 250 words and must be Writers must include name, phone number and email address. Students should also include year in school, hometown and well-writte- n. i pie vith lp I EA- ; 30, 2011 . major. Letters are subject to editing for length, style and grammar. Letters consisting of inaccurate, libelous or highly offensive content will not be published. Letters should be submitted to dixiesundixie.edu in the body of the email, not an attachment. Letters become property of Dixie Sun News and may be published in any format. Dixie Sun News encourages a lively discussion on its website among its readers. Dixie Sun News does not edit comments. However, an editor will not post any comments that are libelous or vulgar. 5 In a classic Washington news dump, the White House announced Friday night that President Donald Trump had pardoned controversial Joe Arpaio, whose crusade The framers of our Constitution vested the ability to "grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States" in the president as a check on the federal judiciary. They debated whether to force the president to share the clemency power with the Senate, whether the power should apply only "after conviction" of a crime, and whether there against illegal immigration in Maricopa County, Ariz., led to racial profiling and a criminal contempt conviction. Since then, some pundits and scholars have argued that, with this decision, Trump crossed the line and upended the Constitution. Some have even suggested that he should be impeached. Sony, but it's not going defuse insurrections, as George Washington did in the Whiskey Rebellion, or to bring the country back together again after a trying time, as the Civil War amnesties did. Not all pardons fit neatly into these categories, of course. Presidents have also granted clemency to murderers, terrorists and spies. They have pardoned for political gain, to get themselves out of trouble and to help out family members. All of which is to say, presidents have a broad power to pardon. The only textual limits in the Constitution are that the crime must be a federal wide-rangin- Here's why. ex-Sher- iff should be an exception made to exclude treason from eligibility for presidential mercy. Ultimately, they decided that the president alone should be able to exercise g clema ency power and then take responsibility for those decisions. Clemency is a kingly power that allows the president to offer official forgiveness as an "act of grace." The vast majority of pardons by recent presidents have gone to nonviolent offenders who have served their time. Presidents can also use clemency for the benefit of the "public welfare" to l) offense, (not and that the president may , , not act "in Cases of Im peachment." For various that's the way the t i ' ' framers wanted it. There . I . ." ' i is certainly nothing in the 0,.., 1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,rmV.44-4'' 'f 40, '.''''; . 1IConstitution that excludes t v ' ' '''''' t i or makes distinctions I based on whether the of1 fender was a law enforce1 ,,' ,.,,, I ment officer or violated a - ,,,' court order, for example. That Arpaio was in law i ,, i7 t enforcement is pretty , , i 1 ., ,' much irrelevant, and ; I is nothing new when it -'4WI A ',141- , 4, i. comes to clemency. For Berin Rancho of crowd a walks Sheriff Joe protestors Arpaio through Maricopa County, Arizona, example, Ronald Reagan only group of Conservative Voters for Good nardo, California, before he addressed a standing-roopardoned two FBI offi 2010. on state-leve- , - . - P' I 1 ', 4 ' , , - - , i .i , ' 4' , , '',: - " ; ' I '""..,.1 1 , - ,. k A ", , tk A. 1 k , , , -- - 1 I I m Government, 1 , Tuesday, August 9, cials who allowed agents to conduct illegal searches in order to locate fugitives who belonged to the Weather Underground. Granted, the Atpaio pardon upended a judicial ruling, but that's precisely what clemency decisions do. Going forward, the White House would be well advised to consider how other politically charged clemency decisions have played out in the past. Gerald Ford made a controversial pardon early in his presidency when he granted one to his predecessor, Richard Nixon. The GOP suffered a bloodletting for Watergate in 1974, and Ford's reputation took decades to recover. More recently and much less honorably than Ford presidents of both parties have used pardons or commutations to assist their political allies (George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and Scooter Libby) or their supporters (Clinton and Marc Rich). These acts are failures of judgment that stained the records of each of these presidents. (c)2017 Los Angeles Times. not-so-dist- Iran-Contr- a, 1!, |