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Nov 17
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Remembering Charles Mingus
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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
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