Wednesday, april 22, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 5
s to the editor
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Of students and cattle
It is unfortunate that some students fail
to respect communal property in their
efforts to save a few steps and a few sec
onds time. In doing this they trample the
rights of present and future students to an
aesthetic campus just as they trample the
few struggling spears of grass now trying to
grow between Andrews and Burnett Halls.
I am referring to James S. Story's com
plaint about the newly-erected fence be
tween Andrews and Burnett Halls as a
means of preventing students from walking
a convenient path.
Ranchers use something similar in
pastures called a drift fence to force live
stock out of their normal path of travel or
to force them into unused areas. It is sad
the university must practice the same
methods to protect state ground. One
expects more of students than one does of
a cow.
Cheryl Alberts
Junior, College of Agriculture
No deterrent, no theory
Brady Wiebeck attacked Doug Teten's
logic in defending handguns; he should be
wondering about his own logic.
The "no deterrent" theory, so popular
in attacking the death penalty, has now
spread to the handgun controversy. If there
is no mandatory jail term or other punish
ment for people who use handguns, what's
the purpose of having handgun control in
the first place? Is Wiebeck saying it's OK to
walk the streets with a handgun once it has
been purchased, legally or illegally?
"No deterrent" would not apply in this
case at all. If it's no deterrent to know you
will be punished severely for walking about
brandishing a handgun, then what is?
Let's face it. Some punishments, believe
it or not, do serve as effective deterrents.
Have you ever noticed the signs in stores
that say "Shoplifters will be prosecuted?"
Believe me, if there was no punishment for
shoplifting, everyone would be doing it.
Wiebeck makes some good points. There
is no comparison between prohibition and
the possible control of handguns. Likewise,
he is correct in saying that handgun control
will not "take the guns away from the
American citizens."
One sound belief in favor of handgun
control is that you can hide a handgun but
not a rifle or shotgun. No one is going to
be walking about with a hidden rifle tuck
ed inside, unless it's of a type I'm not
familiar with.
If we have handgun control, by all
means let's have a mandatory sentence to
go along with it. The two should go hand
in hand, not one without the other.
Tom Shelton
Sophomore, Journalism
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