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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1973 Page Twelve Gun Control Laws Called 'The Easy Way Out' by Rich General Maxwell E. Rich, Ex- ecutive Vice President, National Rifle Association of America, stated, The renewed calls and demands for additional gun control laws in the wake of the senseless robbery and gunning down of Senator John C. Stennis is Washington, D.C., again points up the fallacy of the present laws which are already in effect in the nations capitol. This attack on the life of a United States Senator occurred in a city that has a law which requires a license for the carrying of a handgun openly or concealed and which requires the registration of all firearms. This law also requires a waiting period and police investigation for the purchase of a handgun. Further, this law provides that a person committing a crime of violence when armed with a handgun or other firearm or dangerous weapon many, in addition to the punish ment provided for the crime, be punished by imprisonment for an indeterminate number of years up to life. This law, moreover, provides that for a conviction for a second or subsequent offense the person shall be punished by not less than five years imprisonment; such sentence may not be suspended, and probation may not be granted. The shooting of Senator Stennis by unknown assailants underscores the magnitude of the crisis facing police departments all across the country. This crisis involves in part the use of handguns in the commission of crimes ranging from robbery to murder, and in many cases both, with the frequent result that the criminal if caught, receives the easy way out. In a recent letter, Washington, D.C., Police Chief Jerry V. Wilson stated that during a 1970 police survey of the results of criminal cases brought pursuant to D.C. Code (1967), which prohibits the carrying of handguns and other dangerous weapons outside ones home or place of business, of all persons convicted of that offense in a three month period only one out of three received a prison sen - 22-32- 04 tence of any length of time at all! There is no easy way out except for the criminal the criminal who is brought to justice and let loose by lenient courts to rob and shoot again and again. Additional firearms laws would not have prevented this attack on Senator Stennis. Enforcement of the existing controls would be a beginning. The National Rifle Association and its one million plus members have under long established policy supported laws that require mandatory penalties for the possession of a firearm in the commission of a crime, and that prohibit possession of firearms by convicted felons, drug addicts, .1 1 bitual drunkards, fugitives .'ro:i justice, mental incompetents, and juvenile delinquents. If and when the attackers of Senator Stennis are apprehended, will they be brought to jus-ti3- ? Will they face the mandatory penalties now in effect under the District of Columbia Code? Or, will they join the legions of their predecessors who freely roam the streets of the Nations Capitol with their handguns to continue their attacks, given the easy way out by courts which will not enforce existing laws? This attack serves well to focus on the problem. There is no easy way out, but there is a way of taking the criminal off the streets and putting him behind bars. line King, of London. England, Wildlife Executive was a professional ice skater. She has performed with the Ice Defines Real Enemy Army Master Sergeant Volley Capades, Holiday on Ice and the In considering what is huH. Cole of the Salt Lake City Ice Follies. The Coles have five mane in treatment of animals, is Recruiting Main Station (RMS) children, ages four to 14. They it worse to cleanly kill a selectwas promoted to the rank of ser- make their home in Sacramento, a gun or to cover ed duck with geant major, it was announced Calif. it with oil, drain its marshes so recently. SgtMaj. Cole entered the Army it cant reproduce or eat, or poiSgtMaj. Cole is a native of Ar- while still in his teens. He said, son it with pesticides or other kansas and entered the Army in I have seen the Army develop 1946. He assumed the duties of into an organization that offers chemicals over a period of some sergeant major of the Salt Lake tremendous opportunities for years? Those are the words of the InCity RMS in August 1972. young men and women to One of his many special inter- achieve dignity, respect, experi- terior Departments Assistant ests and activities has been ence and education, plus travel Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and coaching the U.S. Luge Sledding and adventure with excellent Parks, Nathaniel P. Reed, in an address before a meeting of the Teams in the Winter Olympics. pay. American Humane Association. sta1953 while Beginning in Cole continued, Those He SgtMaj. spoke on Environmental tioned in Germany, SgtMaj. Cole who wish to enlist into the VolA Huspent five years in international unteer Army will enjoy the most Concern and Wildlife Luge Sledding competition as an enviable facilities and resources mane Approach. He further stated, It is the hobby. In 1964 he to an avocation, engage coached the U.S. Luge Sledding in adevelop favorite hobby, to esrve. hu- beavers the dammer, the ditchTeam in the Winter Olympics at ers and the drainers those who manity and to grow as individ- cut Austria. 1968 In he and dig our lands sometimes Innsbruck, uals while serving a most worthwas our Luge Sledding Team ad- while beyond their capacity to recover duty to their country. visor in Genoble, France, and an or to sustain life, whom you international official at Sapporo, need to face eye to eye if you x desire humane treatment for the Moose Released in Japan, in 1972. wild animals, and those land SgtMaj. Cole is currently an Manti Mountains speculators who are determined official of the International SledManti Mountains new moose to sell every square inch of the ding Federation. He was formerly the chairman of the Sports Ad- have not wandered far from the country to some sucker. Bamum was right. The real visory Committee for the 1976 release site, according to Rodestate of in sucker has proved his Winter Olympics. Were the 76 ney John, biologist charge Olympics to be held in Denver or the Wildlife Resources trans- point, multiplying at an astonishSalt Lake City, SgtMaj. Cole plant project. ing rate. There are no slopes too acnow be happily and would John said that according to an steep, no soils so unstable, no tively committed to one of his aerial survey 11 of the 17 re- ecosystem so fragile that modern greatest passions. located animals were seen within day hucksters wont try to sell Before his long and distin- a mile radius of the mouth of to some innocent sap. The danger is that while guished career in Army Recruit- Fish Creek Canyon, where they 16 were Cole loose last turned week the those interested in wildlife despent years ing, SgtMaj. A of added in that the bate hunting, the developers in the Corps Engineers. few January. John of his duty assignments were in moose appeared to be in good continue merrily on their path of Germany, France, Greenland, condition. Their new habitat is Newfoundland, Korea and Japan. similar to that in the Uintahs, sending wild land and wildlife into oblivion. Mrs. Cole, the former Jacque where they were trapped. Salt Lake Recruiter Now Sergeant Major off-du- ty Hardware Sleigh Rides Shut Down Sleigh rides at the Hardware Ranch have ended due to the springlike weather in the Cache area. Ranch Supt. Ivan Turnbow said that there is not enough snow left on the ground for any sleigh riding. However, the new Visitors Center at the ranch will remain open from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Turnbow said that the elk will be fed close to the Center to enable the public to have a close look at the animals. A LOOK AT THE BOOK Sometimes 1 hear a man boast, I understand the Bible perfectly. Whoever says that is for nobody understands the Bible. Gods Word says that the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God (I Corinthians 2:11). The Holy Spirit wrote the Word, and the Holy Spirit interprets the Word to us. He does not give all the revelation at once, of course. Each' time we read Scripture we find in it some new truth, some new beauty, some new revelation, and some new blessing. If a person is a true believer, he will not doubt the Word of God. The man who begins to have reservations about the authority and the accuracy of Scripture does not know God. God is Truth (Psalm 31:6), and His Word is Truth (John self-deceive- d, perfectly the Bible is right, and we dare not withhold from it our sup- port Scripture is the Written to interpret God to us, Jesus Christ the Living to interpret God to us; and between the two there can be no contradictions. How As Word so is Word can a man believe that Jesus Christ was God in the flesh, that Jesus Christ died to save men from sin, that if a man believes on the Lord Jesus Christ he is saved, and not believe the Bible on some other point? It does not make sense. God tells us to search the Scriptures daily, for they testify of Christ (John 5:39). We need to emulate the Christians at Berea of whom it was said: These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind, and 17:17). God is unchanging searched the Scriptures daily, (Malachi 3:6), and His Word whether those things were so is unchanging (Psalm 119:89). (Acts 17:11). If we faithfully Anything that is contrary to study the Word, we will know the Bible is wrong; we must the proper stand to take on all have nothing to do with it But issues in this evil day in which anything that is in line with we live. Robert Wagner and Bette Davis. 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