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6A Daily News – Thursday, January 17, 2013 Opinion DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U NTY S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Greg Stevens, Publisher gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com Chip Thompson, Editor editor@redbluffdailynews.com Editorial policy The Daily News opinion is expressed in the editorial. The opinions expressed in columns, letters and cartoons are those of the authors and artists. Letter policy The Daily News welcomes letters from its readers on timely topics of public interest. All letters must be signed and provide the writer's home street address and home phone number. Anonymous letters, open letters to others, pen names and petition-style letters will not be allowed. Letters should be typed and cannot exceed two double-spaced pages or 500 words. When several letters address the same issue, a cross section of those submitted will be considered for publication. Letters will be edited. Letters are published at the discretion of the editor. 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A lot of people are talking about outlawing military-style rifles, and I am sure that most law enforcement agencies would like to see most military style "assault" weapons off the streets, but they, in most cases, are legal to purchase and own and I do not advocate making these weapons illegal. The text of the Second Amendment reads; "Amendment II. A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." It is the "well regulated" part that I think needs to be looked at by all Americans, gun owners and non gun owners. There are some ideas being suggested that I find to be compelling ideas. The first deals with large capacity magazines for handguns and long guns. People with military type assault weapons have said that they use them for hunting, defense and target shooting, these are all legal and defensible reasons. But, whether hunting, defense or target shooting does not require more than a 10 round magazines, etc. Let's be honest, if a hunter can't hit his target in his first ten shots, he should not really be out hunting in the first place. Ten rounds per magazine for home protection seems like a reasonable number, there being no limit on the number of ten round magazines being in the possession of the homeowner. And regarding shooting at firing ranges, private land or very rural areas, etc., I don't see any reason that the gun owner would need or require more than one ten round magazine at a time. So I think this would be responsible and reasonable "gun control," the firearm laws of California already limit magazines to ten rounds. Any magazine larger than 10 rounds is simply not a requirement or need for legitimate firearm usage and should not be lawful to own or use in any circumstances. In regard to the ammunition itself, other reasonable and responsible actions could include barring the sale of ammunition, sometimes in very large quantities, over the internet. Why should large amounts of lethal ammunition be a mouse-click away for anyone to order without any type of background checks or other records that could be checked in case of the misuse of the ammunition in an illegally obtained firearm? Ammunition is freely available in almost all areas of California and the nation, so restricting internet sales would not seem to be a major problem for the vast majority of gun owners. California law already regulates sales and transfers of ammunition, lists persons prohibited from possessing ammunition (and firearms), minimum age for purchasing ammunition, ammunition sold at gun shows and "certain kinds of unreasonably dangerous ammunition." There is also the matter of "straw sales" of weapons by dealers to individuals who then illegally sell the firearm to unknown, unregistered, sometimes criminal gun buyers. Many times when a registered gun is used in a crime the gun owner can claim that the miserably in their effort to weapon was "stolen." I think it intervene during the ongoing is reasonable for responsible civil war in tiny Syria, which firearms owners to be required confirms the rumor, they to report any stolen firearm couldn't fight their way out of immediately, and have sanc- a paper bag. Moreover, the tions or fines for those who pur- world has begun to resemble chase guns for resale to unau- an assortment of armed thorized people and camps, separated by then try to use the religion, politics, Your "stolen" gun defense ideology, history, when the weapon is geography and used in a crime. This economies, while would surely have a the sale of advanced positive effect and cut military hardware is down on the number of "straw continuing at an alarming rate. buyers" in California and the Undoubtedly, a no-win situarest of the country. tion for a contemporary or I think these are responsible future despot wannabe, intent and reasonable actions to try on taking over the world. and keep firearms from those Instead of scanning the people, criminal or otherwise, skies in search of black heliwho are not authorized to resell copters, it might behoove us to or possess weapons, stop the focus on what is happening use of high-capacity magazines here, on terra firma. which have no legitimate reaThe New World Order, a sons for being necessary to the confluence of wealth and legal use of a firearm, and gen- power, by Corporations, erally lower the chances that a Banks and Wall Street, identimentally unstable or criminal fied as a Corporate State or person could kill large numbers Corporatocracy, is well under of people without having to way. According to recent change magazines after ten reports, 147 Corporations rounds, giving a chance for have thus far succeeded in responders to take appropriate acquiring control of more than actions. These are my personal 40% of the combined global opinions. wealth.... this trend is ongoing Larry Gray, Red Bluff and expanding. Of course, the model is one we are all familiar with, i.e. a behind the scene corporate takeover and domination of our government in Washington.... duplicated, Editor: exported, extended and pracThe conventional image ticed on a global scale. In fact, most of us envision regarding the U.S. Supreme Court is the eventual emergence of a leading the way by bestowing One World Government, is personhood upon Corporathat of a Stalin or Hitler type tions and declaring money the dictator, who wields ultimate equivalent of free speech. In retro style global power and light of that, the emerging control under the auspices of monstrosity is likely to be prothe United Nations. At this moted as a symbol of Freedom stage of the game, such and Democracy by their globarrangement seems to be more al corporate P.R. machine. than far fetched, if not impos- George Orwell's spirit lives sible. Those vaunted Blue on. Helmets just recently failed Joe Bahlke, Red Bluff Turn New world order Your officials STATE ASSEMBLYMAN — Dan Logue, 1550 Humboldt Road, Ste. 4, Chico, CA 95928, 530-895-4217 STATE SENATOR — Jim Nielsen, 280 Hemsted Dr., Ste. 110, Redding, CA 96002, 530223-6300, Fax: 530-223-6737, senator.nielsen@senate.ca.gov GOVERNOR — Jerry Brown, State Capitol Bldg., Sacramento, CA 95814; (916) 445-2841; Fax (916) 5583160; E-mail: governor@governor.ca.gov. U.S. REPRESENTATIVE — Doug LaMalfa 506 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515, 202-2253076. U.S. SENATORS — Dianne Feinstein (D), One Post Street, Suite 2450, San Francisco, CA 94104; (415) 393-0707. Fax (415) 3930710. Barbara Boxer (D), 1700 Montgomery St., Suite 240, San Francisco, CA 94111; (510) 286-8537. Fax (202) 224-0454. Commentary Toughing out the flu like a man By Sunday morning my voice sounded like Lindsay Lohan in rehab. How did I get like this? Oh, I know how it happened — because I'm too stubborn to listen to the sage advice of the Dr. Richard Wickenheisers of the world. I don't need no stupid flu shot. Flu shots are for babies, old ladies, hypochondriacs and sissies. I'm none of those things — quick where's my floral-patterned box of tissues and blankey. My toes are cold and I don't want to move. I think I might have pneumonia. I thought I could hold off this flu the manly way. As soon as the first symptom surfaced I purchased a carton of orange juice and downed the whole thing. That oughta do the trick. ACHOO! Wait, my own prescribed therapy to cure my own diagnosed illness didn't work? ACHOO! But I spent an hour on WebMD and that dude on Yahoo! Answers seemed so confident that if I just gargled salt water before bed I would be good to go the next day. ACHOO! OK the manly thing to do now is just head off to work and infect others Walking Dead style. Sure some of my co-workers will treat me like I have leprosy, but it's just a matter of time before they catch this thing anyway. Better sooner than later, I say. This happens every January. The rest of my co-workers I hate this month. will already be sufferI can't wait until ing as I am. I'm over this thing, Instead of being until the sun comes productive worker back out, until I can bees, we'll sling tales barbecue again, until of our sickly advenI can buy fresh corntures. on-the-cob again, "Mine started with until I can hear the a knot in my throat, crack of a baseball then I got all congestbat... ed and had a ZZZZZZZZ headache." Finally something "Mine went stuffy, Rich worked. headache then throat." Thank you NyQuil. "Oh you must have Wake me up when something different." it's March. No it's all the same! We're all sick in this county Rich Greene can be cause some 5-year-old was in a Food Maxx grocery cart playing reached at 527-2151, Ext. or by email at with his boogers. I was there. I 109 saw him doing it. I knew what rgreene@redbluffdailynews.c om. this would lead to. Greene