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daily nebraskan
page 5
Baby Boom comes of age
Continued from Paee 4
More women are choosing careers over
the "barefoot and pregnant" stereotype.
Some 51 percent of the women in America
are considered to be the labor force, up
from 37 percent in 1960, the last of the
Baby Boom years. Contraception advance
ments, increased sex education and legal
abortions have helped to make pregnancy
an act of increasing commitment.
This is what many choose to describe as
"the decay of the family unit." But such
description gets a little messy when mixing
morality with pragmatics. If Mom and Dad
must both work to make ends meet, a child
is a costly investment of time and money.
For others who look around at an unsafe
world and a shaky economic pattern, hav
ing a baby right now could even seem a bit
unfair ... to the baby, the parents and the
earth itself.
The ironic question for those seeking
independence from domestic tradition is
that if the conscientious adults are trying
to prevent future overpopulation, who
then will be raising the society of tomor
row? While Third World populations are still
multiplying in numbers that scare the
supporters of ZPG, America is recoiling
from the Baby Boom. Meanwhile, the Baby
Boomers themselves are feeling the effects
of what happened when society bites off
more than it can chew. After all, it ain't no
buffet line.
Keep 'em o- uWilt..
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Editor's note: This is Jane Wenstrand's (Sophomore, Architecture) reaction to the
Joseph Sobran column of Oct. 21. Like letters, illustrations to the editor are welcomed.
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I feel compelled to respond to the two
letters addressing handgun control that
appeared in Thursday's Daily Nebraskan.
Several misguided lines of reasoning
formed the basis of the comments by
Olson and Williamsen.
One of the most obvious is the content
ion that, whether they can obtain
handguns or not, criminals are going to kill
people during the commission of crimes
and emotionally unstable persons are going
to kill friends and family members in the
midst of impassioned conflicts; supposedly,
they will use a pair of scissors or a letter
opener if they can't get a gun.
Clearly, a gun is capable of inflicting
much greater harm from much further
away than any other readily available
weapon. The effectiveness and convenience
of handguns are probably the two main
factors that lead criminals to carry them in
the first place.
All one has to do is listen to the 13-year-olds
in Harlem talking about the
power a gun gives them to realize that guns
are a big part of the problem. These kids
don't say the same things about knives or
letter openers.
Related to this is the guns don't kill
people, people kill people" argument.
Statistics have shown that violent encount
ers are far more likely to be fatal when one
or both parties has access to a gun.
The fact is it's a lot easier for an enraged
husband or wife to pull a trigger and shoot
their spouse or their spouse's lover than it
is to engage in hand-to-hand combat; it's a
lot easier for a drunk to shoot someone in
the parking lot of a bar than it is to beat
them up; it's a lot easier for a mugger to
shoot a resisting victim than it is to phy
sically overpower him. That's why guns go
off so frequently in this country with
lethal results.
Just pull a trigger no messy stab
wounds, no difficult personal encounters.
It's true that killers are killing America, but
they're doing it with guns.
Finally, Olson makes the absurd remark
that, if criminals knew every potential
victim had a gun and knew how to use it,
they would never strike. I for one do not
want to have to arm myself everytime I
walk the streets before 1 will be safe.
We have criminal codes so that people
will not have to resort to such measures.
If the present laws do not work, we should
revive or strengthen them, not throw up
our hands and strap on a holster.
Our goal is to make our cities safe,
civilized places to live, not turn them into
armed camps. I maintain that a first step
would be to severely limit the manu
facture, distribution and ownership of
handguns.
Richard Betz Junior, EnglishPre Law
(Mlw nebrasEian
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