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The Shedd Institute www.theshedd.org - 541.434.7000 Friday Nov 17 Carl Woideck Jazz Heritage Project Remembering Charles Mingus Open House - Saturday, Nov 18, 10:30 to noon The Shedd’s “new” Jaqua Concert Hall Come test our new hearing assist system w/ live music! (Jazz Kings, Siri Vik, Michael Anderson & Alice Blankenship,...) 2. Ban high-capacity magazines of over ten rounds. 3. Establish a nation-wide expanded instant background check that addresses state loopholes, including the gun show loophole. 4. Expand access to mental health care. 5. Require financial liability insurance as a prerequisite for gun ownership. At our county level, we must insist com- missioners enforce SB 941, which became effective Aug. 2015. This check on private gun sales is meant to determine whether someone is legally prohibited from owning a gun. Emails, dated Oct. 3 and 16, asking whether SB 941 is being enforced in Lane County, sent to Lane County Commission- er Williams, have gone unanswered. Carol L. Scherer Eugene TOO MANY GUNS Too bad Trump didn’t learn anything about gun control while in Japan and South Korea. In South Korea there are only about 20 gun deaths a year, in Japan about 10. The U.S. has about 33,000 gun deaths a year. I am a gun owner raised in a hunting family. What would common-sense gun control look like? No one with a record of violence should be able to get a gun. Hunt- ers should only need about three long guns, a .22 for varmints, a shotgun for birds and something like a bolt-action 30.06 for deer and elk. One handgun should be allowed for self- defense. Three percent of the public owns half of the 3 million guns in the country. There is no excuse for an armory of 20 to 30 weapons. Anyone crazy enough to think they can take on the National Guard should be disqualified. Only registered shooting ranges should own automatic weapons. There is no excuse for militarized weap- ons like an AR-15. The bullet from an AR- 15 travels so fast it will burst into fragments, bones will be pulverized and nearby organs will be destroyed by cavitation. That is why few children survive being shot. There is also no need to have bump stocks, body armor, large-capacity maga- zines, silencers or armor-piercing bullets. Ninety percent of the 22,000 gun suicides have mental problems. About the only law the Republican Congress has passed allows people with mental problems to purchase weapons. Jerry Brule Eugene Béla Fleck Abigail Washburn Echo In The Valley Friday Nov 24 IDENTIFYING SEXUAL PREDATORS With the recent #MeToo campaign trending, it’s important to know how to identify a predator and steps they take to groom their target: 1: They identify a victim: They differ in “type” (age, appearance, gender) but all look for a victim who seems somewhat vulnerable. 2: They collect information on the vic- tim through casual conversations with the targeted individual, or child and parents. 3: They then become part of the target’s life by filling a need. They act like a gate- keeper with keys to the kingdom and the target must submit (Harvey Weinstein had the keys to Hollywood). Wherever there’s a power imbalance, the possibilities are endless. 4: They start to lower the target’s inhi- bitions concerning sexual matters like an “innocent” kiss or ask for a massage. 5: They initiate the abuse and threaten to punish so target remains silent. They use manipulation to blame the victim who is subject to a trauma bond at this point, same thing that keeps domestic violence victims stuck in the cycle of abuse. Most sexual predators are quite charm- ing and spend a lifetime grooming entire communities. Notify the police; sometimes a detective is assigned to build a case. They walk among us. Josephine Brew Eugene Shedd Theatricals 2017 Singin' In The Rain December 1-17 eugeneweekly.com • November 16, 2017 5
