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Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: A reply to the article "Easter At Home, Not What It's Cracked Up To Be", printed in this paper April 3, 1975. I do not know what faith you are, nor should that matter pertaining to this article. We should all be Christians and know t there is a Christ who lived and died on the cross that we may have life eternal. Easter is a commemoration of His atoning sacrafice for us, His ressurection, and a time that our thoughts and actions should be centered on this glorious event. A time of Thanksgiving to our Heavenly Father who gave His "Only Begotten Son" that we might live. As I read of this event in any bible I am certain our Lord did not intend we celebrate His ressurection with candy Easter eggs, Easter bunnies and picnic outings. Our family and children did not celebrate in like manner. Our children should grow up knowing the true meaning of Easter and worship accordingly. I realize that Easter was early on the calendar this year. I did not set the date. As I looked out my window on the freshly fallen snow, I thought of our forests, our stockman and the animals. How grateful I was for them who survive and depend on this moisture for a life sustenance. I have lived in areas where the water we drank was rationed due to lack of moisture. Our all righteous God knows our needs and we can be grateful he supplies sup-plies them. Our family are not stockmen, farmers or ranchers who depend on this moisture for survival. Our business is oft times hindered due to the storms and it is an added expense to have the snow removed from our premises to aid our business. My time is valuable but when I read your article I was amazed and then prompted to reply. I do not mean to offend you but when you find time open your bible and read of the ressurection and its meaning to you and all mankind. Concerned citizen years of bloody fighting. I plead with the powers that be to leave us our guns that we might protect ourselves and to forget about more gun legislation and enforce a few of the laws we already have. Protection indeed! For example the lady who recently tried in vain to call the police to report that someone was trying to pry her door open got only "This is a recording." Please state your problem and you will be contacted shortly." She tried the Highway Patrol, all she got from a secretary was, "I'm, sorry, our men are all busy. Can you call back later?" From the telephone operator when asked to call some help she got, "What number would you like please. I can't help you without a number." num-ber." By this time the door was forced open and the woman was shot five times. Later a neighbor admitted hearing the shots but said, "I thought it was somebody hammering." Protection by the Police? The most alert policemen in the country cannot be where a crime is taking place one time out of a thousand. If this woman had had a pistol and could have shot one shot she would probably still be alive today instead of in a cemetery with her murderer running loose to commit murder again. Alva Matheson Letter to the Editor; It is my firm belief that the enactment of the present gun control bills can serve no practical purpose. I believe that no amount of legislation will prevent any criminal from violence once he has set his mind to it. It could only change the method used. A gun is more easily used because of distance. We are being smothered with laws of every kind now but what good are words on paper without force behind them, and with conditions as they are, who will enforce the law? When a ten year old chemistry student can mix ingredients from an average kitchen cabinet and make an explosive that will fire a steel ball through a three inch plank it seems futile to think that any combination of words in a law or the removal of guns will have any appreciable effect. I strongly believe that the only way to stop senseless murders like those of the past few years, which these gun laws are aimed at, is to remove the shackles from those who are sworn to uphold the law and place the shackles on lawyers who spend hundreds of thousands of tax dollars defending known and even confessed criminals in order to make money or a little notoriety, and on the federal judges who have "sold us down the river" with their misinterpretation and reappraisal of the finest document ever written, the Constitution of the United States, which for two hundred years has made us the greatest nation the world has ever known. In the name of Civil Rights they defend the criminal against the law abiding citizen. They tell us how, when and where we can express our religion and have all but taken our right to the religion away from us, the number one reason for founding this nation in the first place. They have made it illegal to prosecute or discredit sworn enemies, the Nazis and communists, making it man-ditory man-ditory to give them employment even in high government offices. They are placed in school rooms to teach our students. If one of them is arrested he pleads civil right infraction of the Fifth Amendment etc. and are turned free. If the Warren Commission has served any useful purpose I have missed it. If they had been heading the Communist Party they could hardly have made more progress for them. They have stood by and watched long haired and unshaven hoodlums haul down and spit upon and trample into the mud, which to us, is the most beautiful flag in the world and have done nothing about it. Civil rights? For whom? Pornography is on every magazine stand throughout the country and is even in the schools and colleges. It is being taught in the kindergartens in the name of sex education. According to the supreme judges interpretations civil rights and freedom of speech and expression must be upheld regardless of whether the nation stands or falls because of it. or how the nation suffers. Because ot the laxity in law enforcement and the lack of criminal punishment enforcement en-forcement since the Warren administration crime has gained with leaps and bounds because of it's interpretation of the laws. Now if the Gun Control Law is allowed to change the Constitution Con-stitution will become a museum relic, and when the criminal knows there is no gun in a house there w ill be no house safe from his ravages. I make the prediction that if gun registration is forced upon the people it will be only a short time until guns will be confiscated and a crime rate that will be un-believeable un-believeable will follow, then an attempted take over by communism com-munism and no one can deny that the United States has ever been more ready for a take over. One writer said, "Who needs guns? We have the Army, Navy, Air Force and Police to ported us?" Protect us from what. We have crime of every description running rampant, violence and rioting, treasonous acts all over the nation and we haven't been able to more than slap the wrist of a thirtieth rate nation in seven |