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Show July 3, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 3. The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand THE REAL GUN CONTROL SUE A r dene R , McLauchlan IS- MARILYN MANION The See the spectacle! sovereign American people, after FINGERS ON THE TRIGGER The city in one of whose suburbs I live has one of the highest murder rates in the country. distinction This makes dubious its news media more concerned than most about the gun control issue. Every Saturday night, someone is likely to shoot his wife, or whoever else it is with whom hes been arguing. Violence is not, of course, restricted to domestic quarrels - all over America people are afraid to walk on the streets at night for fear of being attacked, and maybe shot. Everybody agrees there is a problem, but two schools of thought exist on the matter of a solution. One holds that criminals abound today because they are allowed to perpetrate their misdeeds. Most of them are repeaters in and out of jail, mostly out; there is not enough deterrent to keep them from killing or raping or robbing. The other believes that guns, not criminals, are the prime caue of shootings, and if we take guns away from everybody, peace will prevail. If there were absolutely no guns in existence anywhere indeed, if it were as if guns had never been invented then no one could shoot anyone else. But persons intent upon doing somebody in would simply make use of knives, hatchets, clubs or whatever else their evil imaginations could devise. Jack the Ripper didnt need a Saturday-night-specia- The proposed l. problems with laws that would forbid or restrict the IF specifically ownership of guns are many. Law-abidin- citizens g who maintain they keep guns for are using the only method they know to deter a self-defen- se criminal attack upon themselves. The rapist may be arrested, but he is soon set free to rape again. A maniac wanted in several states for ' rape, assault and murder is released from an institution for the criminally insane. The and prisons rehabilitate" model prisoners turn back into criminals again after having been released for good behavior behind bars. If the law wont protect me, says the gun owner, Id better protect myself. Not the least of the dilemmas involved in the enforcement of a gun law is exactly how that enforcement will be carried out. Will everybody turn in their weapons voluntarily? I would bet that criminals would not. And how would the state be sure that all weapons are turned in? House-to-housearches? Thats a pretty big foot in the door of ones privacy. William Raspberry, a black columnist with the Washington Post, writes of Jamaica's - se experience with the confiscation of all handguns and bullets: : the warrantless raids, the summary jailings and other abridgements of the rights we have come to take for granted." He concludes: It would be nice to live in a society thatis both free and gunless, but lm not sure you ;an get there from here." -- The American Way Features THIS WOMAN forbidding their legislators any power to pass gun laws, are now on their faces before those legislators, beseeching them not to pass gun laws! Of what use is our Constitution if we are going to surrender to our legislators a choice in the matter? According to the Constitution, the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND, they have no choice. They have no authority to even consider these laws. Why do we spend so much time debating whether or not the people should have guns? That question was settled long before the Second Amendment was passed. To our Founding Fathers, weapons were to be a defense (Federalist against usurpers. now we allow If 028) usurpers to take away our guns, we are among historys biggest fools. Every letter to a legislator should begin with an order that he throw out any proposed laws for which he has no legal power. He should not even read them! We owe him no explanations. When we beg and plead, he has us right where he wants us. But we are the bosses, not the helpless victims, of the politicians. Lets begin to act like it! Most of them couldn't care less about our reasons for opposing gun controls. They know them very well already. Gun control laws" are un. constitutional. therefore ILLEGAL. An illegal law is NO law. I, for one. will ignore any such laws' as though they had never existed. They have no bearing on me. a sovereign American, because I have not authorized them. I will urge everyone 1 know to take the same attitude. If we disregard the Constitution, we have no other choice than to be ruled by the whim and caprice of politicians who bow to those who control them! Questions or comments may be addressed to 9121 210 NE. Redmond. Washington 980S2. Continued from page HAD OWNED A GUN SHE MIGHT BE ALIVE TODAY Detroit (AP) A hild spent a week alone in is home with the body oi his slain mother, police say. Hie police forced their way nto the house and found the toy alone with his mother's were summoned uesday by a neighbor who aw young Jack Jones peering om a window in the home, he neighbor said it occurred ) her then that his mother ad not been seen for a week. , Police forced open the front oor and found Jack, dirty nd hungry, but apparently in Officers easonably good health. Vernella Maxine Jones, 26, ras lying on a bed wth her ands and feet bound and dth two stab wounds in the neck. Police said she had been dead for about a week. Empty cereal boxes were found in the house, and police said they, believe Jack ate the cereal and drank from the ktchen faucet during his week without supervision. The unidentified neighbor took the child to her home to feed and bathe him. The poor tyke was so hungry and dirty. But he is so young he really doesn't know what was going on. He just stayed quiet like while he was in my house,1 the neighbor said. .The murder brought the citys homicide mark for 1974 to 753, two more than last years record number of . 1 the 1969 Reappraisal Act known as Senate Bill 20. He said the law established state assessors and in effect, took the tax assessment out of the hands of the elected county assessors and put it in the hands of appointed state assessors, over He which we have no control. of the strongly urged support law. The Recall act proposed would allow citizens to petition to recall any elected or appointed public official through a special In many instances, election. property valuations have risen 10 to 20 times more than last year. Marly citizens expressed a great deal of anger at what was called tax oppression". County Commissioner C. E. Moss spoke to the group for a few minutes and said that In most cases your taxes will not go up very much." but did admit property taxes will be up. The group appointed a committee to study the property tax problems and meet with the county commissioner and discuss county expenses. Note to reader from Davis County: The Utah Independent will print the reports as received in the future, from the special - HIGH PRICED DICTOCRATS Captain Joe H. Ferguson CONTROL BY DICTOCRATS America, once the land of the free, is fast coming under the complete control of a vast army of dictatorial bureaucrats, properly shortened to the. dictocrats. This multitude of dictocrats comprise a huge fourth level of government which operates outside of the authority of the Constitution and which is in no way controlled by or responsible to the citizens of the United States. They exercise, a tremendous amount of raw. unrestrained power over the lives, properties, and businesses of the people, yet the people have no control over them. If this sounds unreal, just try to vote out of office one of the appointed bureaucrats that has such power over you. You can't do it it is impossible. You can't vote them out because you didn't vote them in. They were appointed. This amount of power in the hands of ah unelected army of dictocrats poses perhaps the greatest danger Americans face today. THE COSTS 30 BILLION A YEAR Not only is this army of dictocrats running roughshod over the American people, but the people also arc being forced to bear the cost of maintaining these huge bureacuracies. The cost? A staggering one hundred thirty billion dollars a year! Now. folks, thats a heck of a lot money. That would be a heck of a lot of money even if 1 the bureaucracies were beneficial to the economy and the people. But when we are forced to pay SI 30 billion a year to finance the dictocrats who dominate us. that is adding injury to more injury. Fellow Americans, it is high time we got into high gear and started a major overhaul on our ship of state. Namely, trimming off the bureaucratic barnacles and throwing overboard some of the useless cargo so that we can get our economy and country back on course and running at full speec again. Preserve The Status Quo? The chief Liberal charge against the Conservative" is that he always upholds the status quo." This is a crooked idiocy that leads one in a whirligig journey by the lane of Round About to the land of Nobodys to Castro, the penalizing of our It is easy to prove this... Today in America, the Home. Liberal" Establishment, our crooked contemporary orthodoxy, is the status quo. Do I, as a Conservative, - the accept that status quo? centralized control over the once-fre- e States; the stuffy bureaucracy hunkered down in Foggy Bottom; the pampering of our enemies from Kosygin Ih' friends from Chiang to Tshombe to Ian Smith; the bread and circuses (always at the hand of Caesar) as the only need and right" of man; The glandular disease of the budget, leading to pathological gigantism; the extortions that make tax slaves of us all; the universal compulsion that turns men into devolution toward the hive and the heap? As a Conservative I reject this status quo with every inch and ounce of my being. Kai-she- k Merrill Root -- E. ilM lndop.nd.nt Salt Lake City, Utah The Utah Independent is published by the Utah Independent each Tuesday at 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate is $10.00 by surface mail In the United States, $15.00 foreign. 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