Letters To
The Editor
Dear Sir:
When is the Congress going
to do something more than pass
the so-called “Gun Control'*
bill included in recent4'Crime
Control" legislation!
How many more of our great
leaders, and thousands of lesser
persons must be murdered
before adequate national legis
lation is enacted?
5,600 American citizens, in
cluding 155 police officers, were
killed in this country last year.
Only 20 were killed in Great
Britain where even policemen
are not armed; 30 in France;
and 37 in Japan, in all of
which ‘‘re are very stringent
gun co>. 1 laws. Every Western
country has more adequate gun
control legislation than the pro
posed U. S. law!
Few states have adequate con
trol. In those that do, people
simply go into an adjoining
state and buy. Police records
of gun confiscation during the
1967 Detroit and Newark riots,
showed that most guns were
purchased in nearby Ohio and
Pennsylvania which have much
less stringent legislation than
Michigan and New Jersey.
It took years for the Congress
to “defy", even in such a mild
manner, the highly “unofficial
ly" organized lobby and the
national letter writing cam
paigns erf the National Rifle
Association, and yet this pow
erful organization represent
less than one half of one per
cent of die American people
in its claimed membership!
The emphasis which the NRA
makes on the Second Amend
ment to the U. S. Constitution,
taken out erf context, with ref
erence to the “security of a
well organized militia" is mis
leading. Congress could and
should provide that all citizens
entitled to buy and own guns
be allowed to do so.
Another “argument" is “in
fringement of personal liberty”
in requiring a permit to buy
or own a gun! Yet few persons
question the right of local, state,
and Federal governments to
require permits to drive a car,
catch fish, hunt, own a dog,
nm a motor boat, and cm and
9°’
- Why should any law abiding
-citizen object to a permit with
similar personal identification
to buy any kind of gun anywhere?
Or to bring in for registration
one of the some 50 to 100
million guns now in the hands
of private citizens?
On June 9, interviewed on
the NBC “Face the Nation"
program on TV, Senator Joseph
Tidings, probably the best in
formed man in the Congress on
the need for gun control laws,
called the present bill “wholly
inadequate" and only a weak
“first step"—“only better than
nothing", and demanded that
the Congress “face up to the
true dimensions of the gun
problem in this country" and
said “It is clearly time for
legislation that does." Yet 53
Senators voted against even in
cluding rifles and shotguns in
the mail order restrictions.
And it was a mail order rifle,
without required identification,
that killed President Kennedy!
Thank you for carefully read
ing this appeal. And please
think about it!
Sincerely yours,
Paul N. Campbell
Rogers Drive
Boone, N. C.
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A Decided Success
Watauga Democrat
Boone, North Caroline
Dear Editor:
On behalf of the Mountaineer
Ruritan Club and the Future
Farmers we would like to ex
press to everyone who exhibited,
sponsored trophies, advertising
and in every other way helped
to make our Fifth Annual Cove
Creek Horse Show a success.
We hope the show will merit
your continued support.
The Watauga Democrat has
given the horse shows excellent
coverage down thru the yean
and we greatly appreciate this
fine service.
Sincerely yours,
R. G. Shipley
Manager
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