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18 Wednesday, April 11, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon LETTERS Continued from page 2 percent majority, but don’t let everyone else decide how this turns out. Every vote matters, so please take the time to fill out your ballot this fall and ensure it gets in on time to be counted so we can con- tinue to have a vibrant school system where children excel! Erik Pronold s s s To the Editor: As parents of two children in the Sisters School District, we know it’s all of the lit- tle things that help to make Sisters School District thrive. These little things like smaller class sizes, high graduation rates and lowest tax cost in all of Central Oregon do not always get “noticed,” but as a parent it is one of the rea- sons we have chosen to stay in Sisters. The Sisters local option allows Sisters School District to pay the salary for up to 12 teach- ers or make up some of the funding shortfalls from the state. By renewing the Sisters local option we provide the Sisters School District with nec- essary funding with very little change to our taxes. Please vote YES for the Sisters local option measure #9-121 on May 15. Peggy Houge and Darren Root s s s To the Editor: I’m not alarmed by Oregon Initiative Petition 43 that would ban “assault weapons” and “high-capacity magazines.” If it were to pass, I wouldn’t even bother sending you my thoughts and prayers for your loss. But, what I’d really like to see is the federal government, not the states, ban the manufacture and sale of high-capacity magazines and initiate a buy- back program for those already in circulation. This is not a new idea. William Ruger, the founder of the American firearm manufactur- ing company Sturm, Ruger & Co. made this recommendation to Congress in 1989: “The best way to address the firepower concern is therefore not to try to outlaw or license many millions of older and perfectly legitimate firearms (which would be a licensing effort of staggering proportions) but to prohibit the possession of high-capacity magazines. By a simple, complete and unequivocal ban on large capacity magazines, all the difficulty of defining ‘assault rifle’ and ‘semi-automatic rifles’ is eliminated. The large capacity maga- zine itself, separate or attached to the firearm, becomes the prohibited item. A single amend- ment to Federal firearms laws could effec- tively implement these objectives.” The problem with this, though, is there has to be a limit on how many clips a person is allowed to have. The shooter at Parkland high school had at least fifteen 10-round clips (high-capacity is defined as more than 10), allowing him to shoot 150 bullets in just a few minutes. The law should limit the magazines to 5 bullets and only allow one clip to be on a person at a time. Follow that with strict penal- ties with jail time and their right to own guns from that point on. Hunters don’t need or use multiple clips, and in Oregon there is already a five-cartridge limit for hunting big game, three for birds. No cartridge limit exists in Oregon for shooting at people. Terry Weygandt s Oregonians read their local newspapers! 81.8% report 2+ people inside/outside of their home read their copy of the local newspaper. These results, published 3-12-18, combine answers from 308 Oregon adults, ages 18+ who participated in a Pulse Marketing Survey. Information provided Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. s s Central Oregon veterinarians face pet sedative shortage BEND (AP) — An opi- oid shortage is forcing clinics to use less potent anesthetics when performing surgeries on pets, veterinarians in Central Oregon say. Byron Maas of the Bend Veterinary Clinic said veteri- narians in the region are using new protocols. “It changes how we get animals under anesthesia and keep them under so they don’t feel the pain,” he told The Bulletin. “We’ve had to formu- late how we have done anes- thesia and keep things safe. We’ve come up with some dif- ferent anesthesia protocols.” Attempts have been made to fight an opioid epidemic among humans amid over- dose deaths attributed to the addictive drugs, leading to restrictions that are trickling down to veterinary clinics. Rhonda Ahern of the Bend Spay & Neuter Project said the nonprofit clinic is restricting how many large female dogs are being spayed. “We are limiting the large female dogs because they take so much,” she said. “We would be out and perhaps not be able to do any surgeries.” Liz Pollak at the Bend Equine Medical Center said large animals such as horses aren’t affected by the opi- oid shortage because drugs used for horses are not being restricted. But she treats cats and dogs at the equine clinic’s small animal division. The shortage “seems like it’s restricting our ability to practice medicine,” she said.
