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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Mom suggests best approach
to asking about gun safety
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Readers: Today’s column is
judgment — just something I need to
a continuation of yesterday’s about the
ask. Do you keep guns in your home,
importance of gun safety and parents
and if so, how do you secure them?”
feeling confident enough to raise the
2. “This may be me just being
subject with other parents. Read on:
overprotective, but the news lately
Dear Abby: I am a physician and
has me fearful, so I have to ask. Do
the mother of four curious, intelligent,
you keep guns in the house, and if so,
energetic boys. My primary job as a
how do you secure them?”
mom is to keep them healthy, love
3. “I love how well our boys play
Jeanne
them and educate them.
together!
It’s fun to see their energy
Phillips
I grew up in a small, conservative,
have an outlet. But I have a question
Advice
gun-friendly community. My grandfa-
before their playdate at your house.
ther was a hunter. My friends growing
It’s one that always makes me a
up all owned guns at young ages. Many of little uncomfortable, so please forgive me
them today own guns for hunting or because if this seems forward. Do you keep guns on
they are first responders. I don’t fear the gun. I the premises, and if so, how do you secure
fear the person who doesn’t respect its power them?”
enough to properly secure it.
This is simple information-gathering
As parents, we have an obligation to ask so I can make an informed decision for my
parents where our child will be spending kids. I write this because I want all parents to
time: “Do you have a gun in your home? Yes? feel empowered to ask these questions, and
How is it stored?” What we should be doing because I know that MY asking prompted at
is coaching each other how to ask politely least two moms to re-evaluate and change the
without giving offense. What words do you way they stored guns in their own homes. —
use? I practiced asking because I think the Kemia Sarraf, MD, MPH
subject is touchy, but it does get easier with
Dear Dr. Sarraf: Thank you for taking the
practice. (It took me a long time to learn to time to write, and for providing a road map
do it well.)
for other concerned parents to follow.
Abby, please encourage your readers to
Dear Abby: All of the major national
think about it and share their experiences and health organizations, including the American
best advice. Over the years, I’ve developed Academy of Pediatrics, have defined gun
a multitude of openings that allow me to go violence as a public health epidemic. The
from funny to sincere quickly. The ultimate protocol for health care providers is to teach
question, however, never varies:
parents to ask about guns when children are
1. “You know, I’m so sorry to be ‘that’ going to another home to visit. Please educate
mom, but since we don’t know each other your readers that asking is critical. This is a
well, I need to ask you about a safety issue. public health issue, NOT a political one! —
Please understand that my question isn’t a Lisa Kiser, CNM, WHNP
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 31-Aug. 1, 1917
In addition to the damage done by the
drouth on Camas Prairie near Ukiah the
farmers of that community are sufferers also
from an unseasonable frost that struck the
whole south end last Saturday night, according
to reports brought down. Potatoes and much
other growing stuff was killed by the frost,
according to reports. The frost extended as far
down as Yellowjacket hill.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 31-Aug. 1, 1967
Dixie Lee and Walter Barnes, children of
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin A. Barnes of Milton-Free-
water, danced their way to first place honors at
the Tri-City Water Follies talent show July 20.
And Dixie Lee, who was 13 this month, won
the “best-of-the-best” trophy the following
night, when nine first-place winners vied for
the award. Walter, 10, won first in the junior
division with a tap dance. Dixie Lee qualified
for the championship round in the senior divi-
sion by winning firs place in the novelty dance
category with an acrobatic number.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 31-Aug. 1, 1992
AG Northwest pilot Tom White never
thought flying a crop duster would make
him a hostile target, but after examining the
bullet holes that pierced his plane Wednesday
he has his doubts. White was making passes
over a field near Walker and Westland Road
Wednesday, spraying insecticide, when
Russel E. Smith allegedly began firing at
him with a .22 caliber rifle. Three rounds
ripped into the left wing of the plane and one
deflected off the underside of the right wing.
Oregon State Police officer Gary Workman
said Smith was charged with endangering an
aircraft, reckless endangering and criminal
mischief after indicating at his arrest that he
was not trying to kill the pilot.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 213th day of
2017. There are 152 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On August 1, 1957, the
United States and Canada
announced they had agreed
to create the North American
Air Defense Command
(NORAD).
On this date:
In 1714, Britain’s Queen
Anne died at age 49; she was
succeeded by George I.
In 1876, Colorado was
admitted as the 38th state.
In 1907, the U.S. Army
Signal Corps established an
aeronautical division, the fore-
runner of the U.S. Air Force.
In 1913, the Joyce
Kilmer poem “Trees” was
first published in “Poetry: A
Magazine of Verse.”
In 1936, the Olympics
opened in Berlin with a cere-
mony presided over by Adolf
Hitler.
In 1944, an uprising broke
out in Warsaw, Poland, against
Nazi occupation; the revolt
lasted two months before
collapsing.
In 1947, Mickey Spillane’s
first novel, “I, the Jury,”
featuring the debut of private
eye Mike Hammer, was
published.
In 1966, Charles Joseph
Whitman, 25, went on
an armed rampage at the
University of Texas in Austin
that killed 14 people, most of
whom were shot by Whitman
while he was perched in
the clock tower of the main
campus building. (Whitman,
who had also slain his wife
and mother hours earlier,
was finally gunned down by
police.)
In 1975, a 35-nation
summit in Finland concluded
with the signing of a decla-
ration known as the Helsinki
Accords dealing with Euro-
pean security, human rights
and East-West contacts.
In 1977, former U-2
pilot Francis Gary Powers,
working as a traffic reporter
for KNBC-TV in Los
Angeles, was killed with his
cameraman, George Spears,
when their helicopter ran out
of fuel and crashed; Powers
was 47.
In 1981, the rock music
video channel MTV made its
debut.
In 1994, Michael Jackson
and Lisa Marie Presley
confirmed they’d been secretly
married 11 weeks earlier.
(Presley filed for divorce from
Jackson in Jan. 1996, citing
irreconcilable differences.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Singer Ramblin’ Jack Elliott
is 86. Former Sen. Alfonse
D’Amato, R-N.Y., is 80.
Actor Giancarlo Giannini is
75. Basketball Hall of Fame
coach Roy Williams is 67.
Blues singer-musician Robert
Cray is 64. Singer Michael
Penn is 59. Rock singer Joe
Elliott (Def Leppard) is 58.
Rock singer-musician Suzi
Gardner (L7) is 57. Rapper
Chuck D (Public Enemy)
is 57. Actor Jesse Borrego
is 55. Actor Demian Bichir
is 54. Rapper Coolio is 54.
Actor John Carroll Lynch
is 54. Rock singer Adam
Duritz (Counting Crows)
is 53. Movie director Sam
Mendes is 52. Country singer
George Ducas is 51. Country
musician Charlie Kelley is
49. Actress Jennifer Gareis
is 47. Actor Charles Malik
Whitfield is 45. Actress
Tempestt Bledsoe is 44.
Actor Jason Momoa is 38.
Actress Honeysuckle Weeks
is 38. Singer Ashley Parker
Angel is 36.
Thought for Today:
“Pride, like humility, is
destroyed by one’s insistence
that he possesses it.” —
Kenneth Bancroft Clark,
American educator and
psychologist (1914-2005).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE