University Daily Kansan, February 2, 1981
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Guns
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of murder attempts, it would decrease the success rate.
"Laws against handguns are not going to eliminate crime, but perhaps they will less it," Fraher said. "We'll never know if we don't give it a good opportunity and try it."
ONE ASPECT OF THE gun control debate is beyond dispute—there are plenty of guns in the hands of Americans.
Last January's Gallup poll showed that nearly
1/4 of American homes had at least one gun and
another on the shelf.
Howard Criswell, public information officer for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Washington, said that 2.4 million handguns were lost last year in the United States
Criswell said that BATF knew of at least 1 million stolen firearms in the United States and Canada.
The illegal gun market is often cited as an argument against gun control. Anyone can get a gun illegally if he really wants to, gun control's opponents say.
"The flaw in any gun control law is that there is no way to tell if someone is violating the law,"
"The real problem is the stolen gun or illegitimate ownership. Hundreds of thousands of handguns are stolen and restoken. No law can punish them if KA supports laws that give tough with criminals."
This NRA position seems in conflict with the
group's almost single-handed defeat in 1979 of a gun control bill sponsored by Sen. Edward Dennedy, D-Dallas, and Rep. Wendy Rodino, D-Nevada, in a vote that left the NAFTA is intended on sending it to its grave.
Under the Kennedy-Rodino bill, the entire system of gun registration and gun sales would be streamlined to make it easier to trace guns manufactured in the United States.
THE BILL WOULD also place a 21-day waiting period on the purchase of handguns, provide federal grants to victims of handguns and require mandatory sentencing of one to 10 years for people convicted of carrying a gun while committing a crime.
In addition, the bill would require the 50 U.S. gun manufacturers to record the history and ownership of their guns. This would make it easier for the federal government to deal with dealers are required to keep those records now.
The law is designed as a step toward reducing the number of guns sold and available to criminals.
But the NRA doesn't see it that way.
"The bill would just create more bureaucracy," Adkins said. "The NRA wants laws against crime. Gun control is just a false issue, that's all."
ADKINS ALSO SAID the bill would automatically make up the gans of the bills or $1.5 million in U.S. lice
"The bill would just lay the groundwork for the eventual tanning of handguns," he said.
Fraher responded that Adkins' remarks were inaccurate and typical of the NRA.
"That's crazy," he said. "He's not telling the truth and I think the NRA should be held accountable for the wonderful job they do of taking figures and propaganda out of thin air."
Fraher said he recognized that a crime existed and that the criminals did have access to the evidence.
"But that's not always true," he said. "We should make it as difficult as possible for criminals to get handguns and gun-control laws help us to accomplish that."
Fraher and Adkins agreed that Kennedy and Kodine were faced with an almost impossible task.
"In this Congress the chances are not very good, but the law will eventually pass," Fraher said. "We're battling against an organization that is so big that lobbying and lobbies we only got a budget of $1 million."
FUTURE BATTLES between pro-gun forces and anti-gun groups may become more costly and socially important.
And who will win the war?
"It's a long, uphill struggle, but Americans are doing it. And we are going to force them." Fisher said.
Adkins said that the NRA had blocked a deal to sell weapons to Russia, but that many of the same were expected in the future.
"Our support and political base have continued to grow," Adkins said. "We'll be here as long as we are."
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Taylor
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Taylor said his group, actually a loose-knit movement that pays for his lobbying efforts through private donations, is trying to prevent alcoholism because it is tied directly to many highway deaths, child and wife abuse and low worker productivity.
HE SAID A 1975 study by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare showed alcoholism cost taxpayers more than $422 billion a year through higher insurance rates and taxes.
But Taylor can boil down his feelings to just three words: "I hate suffering."
Despite his figure, Taylor still faces an uphill battle in the Leilashture.
"Other lobbyists have money to wine and dine the legislators," he said. "We've only got the time."
Taylor was raised on a farm near Enterprise, Kan., in Dickinson County. He said he could trace his family's beginnings in Kansas to 1873, when his grandfather settled in Chapman. He also said he could trace his back to John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church.
TAYLOR BREEDZED through Northwestern
UYENITY to get degree in mechanical
engineering
"I can trace the Taylers to Epworth, England, and John Wesley," he said. "The Taylers were mentioned in Wesley's writings, but I can't guarantee they were my relatives."
He was forced to go that fast because he was in a Navy officer's training program, which he
joined when he graduated from high school in 1942. He was 17.
After leaving Northwestern, Taylor was shipped to Miskelman's academy at Notre Dame.
He said he became a Christian while serving as a gunnery officer on a patrol boat at Norfolk, Va. At the end of his tour in 1948, he returned to Kansas, married Mary Louise Cook, his sweetheart since the second grade and became a Methodist minister.
TRIS YEAR, the Legislature will consider making changes in the beer drinking law that太原市
Sen. William Morris, R-Wichita, has proposed a bill to make it illegal to drink beer on a state highway. The bill also institutes criminal sanctions for minors convicted of drinking beer.
Taylor said in addition to that, there would be legislation introduced to raise the legal drinking age. He said the bill would probably strike a compromise to raise the age to 19.
THAT IS NOT what Taylor has been struggling for since 1971, but that does not matter. he said.
"Any step in the right direction is a good one," he said. "Nineteen is good. Twenty-one is better."
Until that fight comes up at the statehouse, Taylor will continue to send out his quarterly newsletter to 29,000 Kansans seeking their support.
And Taylor said he needed their support. After all, he said. "I'm not hurt but an unordinated Unit." He added.
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