tuesday, november 3, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 5
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Rosie Greer
Nov. 15 and 16
flo fids editor
Handguns simple method
, to eir k,tte of 29, Lance Olson and Joel
Willumsen make two rather porous and sophomoric argu
ments against the control of handguns. That's a little
disguised alternative version of the assinine American
bumper sticker claiming that guns dont kill people, peo
ple do. Bunk.
Bullets kill people, fired from handguns, by people.
And Americans kill each other with bullets from handguns
like nobody else: In a recent year the United States
recorded 10,725 handgun murders, compared with 52 in
Canada and 55 in England. That's a whopping difference,
and while that astounding statistic may simply reveal
Americans to be far more barbarian than the citizens of
Canada or England, it may also be a result of the ease with
which any citizen in this country can obtain handguns.
Olson allows that "some citizens have hastily shot their
loved ones after heated arguments. He should have said
many. A majority of handgun murders are the result of
heated quarrels between friends, lovers and neighbors, not
rampaging criminals seeking out innocent victims to
murder.
The fact is that picking up a loaded handgun in a fit of
rage and tiring a bullet across a room or yard or parking
lot at someone else is quick and easy; it happens instant
aneously and there is physical distance between the victim
and the perpetrator.
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Handguns are Convenient. For at least some of the
murderers, it would be much harder to have to plunge a
knife into the flesh of a living person, or to strangle or
choke someone by hand, for example. These means are
slower, cruder, more deliberate; they require closer prox
imity between the two parties; they require that someone
do the work of murder himself rather than relying on the
ease of his gun, on the convenience of distance.
If either Olson or Williamsen are really interested in
reducing the number of handgun murder victims in this
country, and neither mentioned that they cared a whit
about these victims, then they would work to reduce the
number of "lethal tools' with which murder can so
readily be committed.
Mike Cooper
NEH Resident Fellow
ASUN loses local focus
This letter is written with respect to the article entitled
"ASUN Senate opposes nuclear weapon growth which
appeared in the Oct. 29 issue of the Daily Nebraskan. I, as
well as most other logical people, oppose nuclear weapons
growth if such a doctrine would realistically increase the
possibility of peace. However, we do not live in such an
illusory world.
1 ran with the SURE party as a business senator last
year and well remember our pledges to students on how
we would restore credibility to ASUN by concentrating
on student services and problems that are encountered
here at the university level. The SURE party swept the
election and hopes were once again raised that ASUN
might reverse the tailspin it has recently been experienc
ing. The resolution in question is evidence that ASUN has
in fact sped up this demise by indulging in exactly what it
campaigned against.
Tim Rinne and Fran Grabowski's resolution only states
the obvious and has no constructive purpose whatsoever. 1
certainly respect their cause, but feel ASUN is the wrong
vehicle for such a policy. Why does ASUN feel the need to
concern itself with international affairs that it has no
power to influence when there are a myraid of problems
right here at UNL? Does it inflate the egos of our senators
when they look over their landmark decisions on gay
rights, El Salvador, or Solidarity?
Tim Chandler's recent resignation is further evidence
that more and more people are fed up with Rinne s con
stant dedication to occupying ASUN with problems that
do not affect the educational concerns of UNL students.
I was impressed with the foresight of ASUN in that
they saw fit to warn Resident Reagan and other assorted
dignitaries of their most recent resolution. The crudely
simplistic rhetoric found throughout this and other similar
Rinne-sponsored ASUN productions is a sad reminder to
all of us that ASUN is indeed digging a hole that may well
be too deep to escape from in the future.
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