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War Against Crime
Why Not Take
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By HARRY FERGUSON
UP! National Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Any
discussion of the Increasing
danger to Americans in their
homes and on the streets
almost always starts out with
this question: why not disarm
the criminals? A good question,
but much easier to ask than to
answer.
Ask Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D
Conn., who has been trying to
do It for four years and now
enjoys the full backing of
President Johnson. He is
pushing for a federal statute
that would control the Inter
state Shipment of firearms and
stem the flood of non-sporting
Weapons from abroad.
The assassination of Pres
ident Kennedy seemed, at the
time, to anger Americans
enough that It would be easy to
pass a law making it difficult
for criminals to obtain wea
pons. Attorney General Nicho
las Katzenbach put it this way:
“As long as I live I can never
forget that it was a mail order
rifle, sent to a post office box
that had been rented under an
assumed name by a man with
an established record of defec
tion and mental Instability, that
killed President Kennedy.”
Anger Evaporated
But anger evaporates like
water and somehow efforts to
get legislation immediately
after Kennedy’s death failed.
Now things are back about
Where they were. Mayor
Francla Graves of Paterson,
N.J. proved this not long ago.
To test the situation, he
ordered a .22-caliber revolver
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from a Chicago mall order
house, giving only his name and
address and enclosing a money
order for $13.95. The revolver
arrived promptly, and the
mayor had this comment:
'"Hie company that sent me
this gun had no way of knowing
whether I was a convicted
murderer, what my intentions
were or whether I was five
years old or 105 years old.”
Million Guns Sold
The Justice Department be
lieves one million guns are sold
each year by mall order houses
who know nothing about the
purchasers except that they
have some money and have
sent it along. Over a three-year
period, the department says,
4,000 persons bought weapons
from two Chicago mail order
houses and one-fourth of them
had criminal records.
So why is Dodd having so
much trouble getting his law
enacted? Americans are rugged
individualists. Prominent in
their pantheon of heroes are
such gun bearers as Daniel
Boone, Davy Crockett and
Buffalo Bill. They also can
point to the Second Amendment
to the Constitution which says
"the right of the people to keep
and bear arms still not be
infringed.” The writers of the
Constitution, Interested in main
taining an armed and ever
ready militia, scarcely can be
blamed for not anticipating
such later developments as A1
Capone, the sawed-off shotgun
and the American Mafia.
Thursday, Feb. 10, 1966
NRA Oppose* Dodd
Much opposisiton comes from
a most patriotic and respecta
ble organization, the National
Rifle Association of America. It
has 700,000 members and 12,000
affiliated organizations. It has
been praised and supported by
several Presidents and at no
time, so far as diligent
research can turn up, has It
been accused of being subver
sive or of attempting to
organize a private army,
more more more
Basically, the association
thinks Dodd’s law Is Impracti
cal. This position Is stated by
Its executive vice president,
Frederick L. Orth:
“There are many examples
of legislation enaoted years ago
but which have been amended
time and time again to fill a
supposed need for a new gun
law. The association, because
of this experience, looks upon
the vast majority of firearms
legislation as the misdirected
efforts of social reformers, do
gooders and-or the completely
uninformed who would accom
plish miracles by the enact
ment of a new law.”
Who Will Win?
At the moment Dodd’s bill is
in a thorny thicket of controver
sy, and it would be a brave
man, armed or unarmed, who
would predict who is going to
win the struggle between the
Senator and his opponents.
Meantime, what are the police
doing about the Increased
crime rate? In most cases,
about all they can. There never
has been a police chief who will
admit he has enough men, and
most of the time they aro
absolutely right. There are 1.9
policemen lor every 1,000
inhabitants of our big cities; 1.3
for every 1,000 in the suburbs
and .9 for rural areas.
Chiefs of police in big cities
occasionally bring about a
notable reduction in crime by
concentrating on one area
one category of offenses. New
York cut crime in the subways
by putting policemen aboard
the trains. Washington reduced
some types of street crimes by
organizing a tactical squadron
which concentrated on sections
of the city where violence was
high.
Asking for Trouble
But if you take a policeman
away from one place or one job
and assign him to another, you
are asking for trouble la the
posts you have left vacant. Pew
persons realize the multitude of
duties assigned to the police.
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constantly and seldom Is the
force increased. Scotland Yard
probably Is the most famous
police force in the world, and
there is a mistaken idea that
all its men devote all their time
to solving murders. Not at all.
Scotland Yard is the metropoli
tan police force of th« City of
Londop and thousands of Its
men spend their time directing
traffic and looking for lost
children.
(Next: Should crime victims
be compensated?)
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
Arizona Rifle and Pistol Associ
ation believes there are 200
million firearms in possession
of United States citizens.
he estimate is based not
only on persons who keep guns
for their own protection, but
collectors. One-fourth of the
persons who have guns possess
between five and 20 of them.
Some of them, of course, are
obsolete, such as flint-lock
rifles.
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