Wednesday, September 23, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 5
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Guns could kill crime
I read your article in the Daily Nebraskan about guns,
which prompted me to write this letter.
You told of how a 3-year-old child accidentally shot
his mother. As soon as I read that, I wondered whether or
not owning the gun was the reason, or maybe because the
owners kept the gun in a too easily accessible place. At
though it is a terrible tragedy that the mother was fa
tally wounded by the gun, you must admit, that the very
fact that a 3-year-old child got a hold of it, implies some
type of carelessness.
The father himself, said he used the gun in self-defense
once before. Can you imagine how many more times he
would have risked his life, and his family's lives needlessly
while being victimized to robbery, muggings, and any
other violent crimes if he didn't have it? I'm very sad to
say that this case is just one of plain carelessness.
You also stated that a 25-year-old man shot his friend
by accident. In this case, I think it was just a matter of the
gun being poorly handled.
I'm sure there will be more cases like these in the fu-
Nine-to-five. . .
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From their viewpoint -the
only viewpoint they
seem capable of considering
- a job is a conduit for de
livering money to people
who need it.
How do these youngsters
become so separated from
reality? Many of them, 1
suspect, live in homes where
unreality is the norm:
Homes where income means
a welfare check unrelated to
any regular exertion. Some
may have been misled by
well-intentioned job pro
grams whose emphasis is on
the needs of the kid who
applies for work and not on
his ability to produce any
thing of value to an employ
er. And some, no doubt,
have misheard those of us
who insist that every citizen
of a country as rich as
America have a right to a
job and a living income.
What we mean when we
say those things is that no
one should be denied the
privilege of selling his
labors, and that an honest
day's exertion ought to be
decently compensated.
What the youngsters seem
to hear is that employers,
public or private, have the
duty of handing out pay
checks to all who need
them.
Teachers and counselors
try to nudge their charges
toward reality, but with
diminishing success. At best,
they are able to drive home
the connection between
years of education and the
amount of income.
But too many youngsters
conclude that a high school
diploma and certainly a
college degree, in any field
whatever - is a certified
ticket to a decent income. If
the money isn't forthcom-
ing, then there's something
wrong with the system.
Obviously these misguid
ed attitudes are not the sole
explanation of the recent
dismal statistics on youth
unemployment. Thousands
of young people who have
at least rudimentary skills
and the willingness to ac
quire others are, nonethe
less, turned away empty
handed from personnel
offices.
But thousands of others
could find work if their
expectations were a bit
closer to reality and if they
learned something of what
work really is.
Those of us who see clear
ly the private tragedies be
hind the public statistics
will have to teach them.
(c) Ttw Washington Post Co.
ture. But I also believe that if it is known that a large per
centage of the general public owns a gun, the crime wave
will eventually decrease.
Kevin Gallagher,
Freshman
For and against at once
I was pleased to read in the Sept. 1 1th edition of the
Daily Nebraskan that Jan Deeds, spokesperson for Stu
dents for Reproductive Freedom, considers those who sup
port the right abortion "to protect a mother's life" to be
part of the abortion rights movement.
Her position is a new development in the abortion rights
movement. It means that most opponents to abortion on
demand are part of the abortion rights movement.
My question to Deeds is: How does she reconcile the
conflict between those members of the abortion rights
movement who support free, elective birth control abor
tions and those who support the right of abortion only
"to protect a mother's life?" One can't support both po
sitions at once.
Ron Kurtenbach
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