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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand January 20, 1977 The Utah Independent Page 7 MASSACH USETTS REJECTS BAN ON HANDGUNS sense or discretion. izer. This attitude is a little more than self-defens- e. unreasonable. There is an element of passionate hatred in it. It cant he hatred of criminals, because it is not directed toward criminals, and it scarcely affects them at all. Hatred of guns' ? Judge Fox told me people should not defend themselves with guns, and as for the possibility of the citizenry having to fend off a dictan or imposed, he torship, was unequivocal about that. It was ridiculous ! It could never happen! I should put it out of my mind entirely ! I guess we have not been studying the same world. And now that you have made the acquaintance of this horror of a gun law, you can perhaps appreciate what kind of an electorate there is in Massachusetts, and why the Establishment might conclude that people who will submit to that will vote for the next step, which is total confiscation of handguns. And after that, of long guns, and after that, we will be totally at the mercy of criminals and armed agents of the state, like the subjects of every other dictatorship. But the voters voted no by a thumping majority! The vote was about 1,700,000 to 700,000 a one million vote margin! There is hope for us yet. That referendum was a real poll, not a sampling, using trick questions. So, in my personal opinion, it is the last time the voters will ever be asked whether they want such tough gun controls. From now on, I believe, it will be pressure from above, combined with phony "movements fueled by foundations, or even tax money directly. That method has worked wonders in the past decade or two, and I think it is the method which the Establishment will rely upon from now on. After all, a handful of people, with plenty of money, can give the illusion of representing popular opinion as long as nobody in the kept home-grow- tax-exem- pt press looks closely. Had Proposition 5 won , we can be absolutely certain that the Liberal noise machine would have trumpeted the victory worldwide, and lost no time in claiming that it represented a mandate for the nation to go and do likee wise. But it lost, and the is uncommonly silent, save for a few muffled howls of pain. The noise-machin- Estabhshinents common-peopl- e Some of us have firearms for Judge Fox advised me to get rid of mine, assuring me that I could never defend myself and it was dangerous to try. Care to bet? Frankly, I prefer some chance to no chance. That is an attitude the Wall Street Journal mused editorially might have accounted for the whopping no vote. It is lob- by, Common Cause, sulks that money spent to counter Establishment propaganda is an unfairly low blow. Others claim that it was converted into a pocketbook issue by debate about compensation for gun owners. The toads, they sniffle, they care more about money than about life. Oh, the sanctity of lifel (Kill babies, not murderers!) Sheriff Buck-lewho seems to have suffered a runaway mouth in the heat of battle, was last heard braying about his reverwhile admitting that ence for life the law would not disarm the Mafia. Coming down to the line, Buck-le- y made purely emotional appeals about crime and violence, where he had once demanded that the issue be dissociated from "the level of street crime. Buckley and diGrazia, with the help of the League of Women Voters, even tried to make a womens issue out of it, while diGrazia opined that men only have guns to prove their otherwise dubious virility. Clearly, we are not dealing with reasoned arguments. Perhaps it never occurred to the boys that women may also deplore and seek to prevent its violence employment against themselves. Not for nothing is a gun called an equal y, not totally irrational, the averages aside, for the citizen to prefer risks he can control. But we were talking about those Buckleyisms, uttered in the heat of the referendum fight. Where, critics asked, is all the money to come from with which to compensate the owners of half a million (or 1.5 million) handguns in the state? It could cost anything from $50 million to $300 million, not to speak of paying for the bureaucracy to deal with the grab. The good Sheriff, who is not by profession a thief, proposed to pay nothing, but simply to steal all that personal property. Confiscation without compensation is what he demanded. Thus, the truth was finally spilled, after any number of fairy tales had been spread about federal money being available. Which is why citizens of Massachusetts who own firearms, andor support the right to own them whether or not they have any themselves, realized that they were up against the wall this time, and they really got out the vote. Sportsmen were supported by at least fifteen local organizations of working police officers including the Boston Police Patrolmens Association. Thats the Commissioners own police force! They lined up against (are you ready?) the Rockefeller Foundation, the big newspapers, the Governor, the Commissiorrr, Senator Kennedy, Gerald Ford s son, the Gillette razor people, the Americans for Democratic Action, the League of Women Voters, and Common Cause and they swamped the whole Establishment machine in Massachusetts. That is why I believe they will never again ask the people what they want b on the issue. That doesnt mean the super-Liber- al gun-gra- gun-grabbe- rs will quit. As the Wall Street Journal tells us, the proposal to outlaw handguns is one of the most pas- sionate tenets of libera) doctrine. These people have the levers of power, and will use them. President-elec- t Jimmy Carter is beholden to fundraiser Morris Dees, a radical lawyer who has vowed to finish off our Second Amendment rights. Judge Fox has acquired the belief, somewhere, that there is destined to be a coast-to-coa- st law, and he is going to Washington to work it out with leaders in the House of Representatives very soon. And who else do you suppose is lined up on that side of those who want to license people? Why, would you believe Smith & Wesson, the reBartley-Fo- x volver manufacturers? When they are on the Liberal side, they suddenly stop being the gun lobby in a hurry! Says S. & W. vice president Richard McMahon, The handgun is tarred and feathered, but if we had a method whereby people had to be licensed as under Bartley-Fo- x you could some of off street. the the guns get The problem (yawn) is not guns on the street, but criminals on the street. Of course, Smith & Wesson can The A.D.A. is now so far Left that among the dozen on its executive board is the venerable Sylvia Crane, long an operative of the certified Communist Front known as the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation. Recently, she joined the Advisory Board of the bloody-hande- d OC-- 5. make a fine living just selling revolvers to agents of the state. They apparently think they dont need so many citizen customers. So remember that the folks at Smith & Wesson know all about the Bartley-Fo- x law, and they are ready to help the feds clamp it on all of us. Remember it next time you buy a handgun. It is perfectly obvious to me, and it is becoming perfectly obvious to millions of other people, to judge by stif- fening resistance to the that the disarmament of the majority is the name of the totalgun-grabber- s, law-abidi- ng itarian Liberal game. I tumbled to this fact when I happened upon a conference held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with Soviet representation, in which a subject under discussion was unknown weapons. They were not talking about secret weapons, or any Unknown governments weapons. be turned to out weapons my pistol, or whatever I had at the time multiplied by as many Americans as have something along those lines. Unknown weapons are the weapons the Big Boys cant lay hands on because they dont know where they are, or what they are, or who has them, or how g Our many are out there Authorities estimate some 40 million handguns and 120 million long rifles and shotguns are out guns here somewhere, among us citizens. If we were all shooting each other with them, clearly there wouldnt be a soul left to tell the tale, but we are not by any means all shooting each other. We are, all too patiently, getting shot at by the hoodlums in our midst. We have a right to bear arms, and a And let us reright to member that the Second Amendment was put there for the precise purpose of forestalling oppression. Of course. Judge Fox and many others like him insist that it is ludicrous to imagine that we are even threatened, much less that we could successfully resist with our silly little .... self-defens- ever-lovin- e. central-governme- nt weapons. Not even 160 million of them, n Judge? Think harder! In the war in Vietnam, the United States deployed 22 soldiers per Red guerrilla. How many troops w'ould be needed to sit on Americans with 160 million firearms? You see, we have a terrific built-i- n insurance policy which our government, if it were with us instead of against us, would be proud of. But the New World Order, the plan for a global dictatorship, is predicated one-sh- ot no-wi- upon a helpless mass at the bottom being endlessly exploited. All gun control measures are probes or alternative strategies for disarming the American people so that we will have no hope of resisting. Whether they are registering guns or their owners, the and then to goal is to register both turn the screws so that owners and guns will be irrevocably separated, and only agents of the state will have them. Then they can kick down your door in perfect safety. And, my friend, they will. "Massachusetts Rejects Ban On Handguns by Susan L.M. Huck first appeared in the December 1, 1976 issue of The Review Of The News (Belmont, Massachusetts 02178) and is reprinted by permission of the publisher. Wherever is found what is called paternal government, there is found state education. -- Benjamin Disraeli Free men can vote themselves into slavery, but slaves cannot vote themselves .1, free.1 Reese Hunter HEART FUND CHAIRMAN NAMED Jack C. Jensen has been appointed county Chairman of the Salt Lake City Utah Heart Campaign to be held in February, according to Dr. Reed Gardner, the Utah Heart Association President. Mr. Jensen is Chairman of the Board Utah Heart Association, real estate broker and developer with offices at 255 East 4th South. He is also past president of the Salt Lake Board of Realtors; past Realtor of the Year for Utah; director of National Association of Realtors and vice president of the Ambassador Qub. Were dealing with Americas number one killer, Mr. Jensen because cardiovascular said, diseases took more than 950,000 lives last year, out of nearly two million Americans who died of all causes. The cost in lost output due to disability and medical expenses alone were a phenomenal $26.7 billion. Heart disease is Utahs biggest killer! The Utah Heart Association has $150,000 in research requests for this year. These requests are from our universities and hosMr. Jensen said the pitals. volunteers who distribute warning signals and risk factor information, as they ask for contributions, are vital to the Heart Associations fight for lives. Utah has become one of the worlds leading cardiovascular research centers of the world. SEASONAL EM- PLOYMENT Washington: Senator OrrinG. Hatch (R-U- t) announced today that the National Park Service is now taking applications for seasonal employment for the summer of 1977. Applications must be filed on or before February 15, 1977, and Park Service sources indicated that applications received after that date will not be considered. A limited number of seasonal jobs are available for clerical and park aid positions and also for technician and park ranger The National Park positions. Service is an equal opportunity employer, and individuals will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, or political affiliation. An applicant must, however, be a citizen of the United States. Further information and ap- plications can be obtained by to Senator Hatchs writing Washington office, 15-- B Russell Senate Office Building or by 1 . calling (202) 224-52- 5 That Government is Best tha Governs Least |