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Gavel Gamut
By Jim Redwine
PEACE TO SOME
My Sunday School teacher, Violet Willis, was born on the Osage Indian Nation at Pawhuska, Oklahoma in 1912. Violet was an Osage and a college graduate. She was an advisor and friend to my sister, my two brothers and me. She died after gaining almost one hundred years of wisdom, goodwill and good works.
Violet had a fine sense of humor. She would occasionally point out that the federal government had little knowledge of Indian culture and history. I remember when Violet took me to a summer church camp on the Pawnee reservation which the white government had placed adjacent to the Osage reservation. While I never heard Violet curse, she did tell me when we crossed into Pawnee County, “The Pawnee were traditional enemies of the Osage. My father would say ‘Pawnee no pashee’â€. Violet said this had two meanings: “Pawnee not a friend or Pawnee horse’s rearâ€.
Because I am writing this on Christmas Day and am warmed by memories of Christmases past, my thoughts included Violet and her fine command of the English language, the Bible and the ironies to be found in human nature.
As one of Violet’s students on Sunday mornings during the Cuban Revolution (1953 – 1959), I remember her cautioning us that Castro may not be all good and Batista may not be all bad. Then, in my senior year of high school (1961) Violet reminded us that the Bay of Pigs Invasion might not be what our government portrayed it as.
What I learned from Violet was that each side paints its own canvas in matters of war, religion and “good willâ€. In fact, Violet taught that the Christmas Story as found in the Book of Luke could be understood from several viewpoints.
For example, my other religion teachers had always said, “Peace on earth, good will to menâ€. But Violet said various scholars and pundits said:
“Peace on earth among men in whom he is pleasedâ€; or “Peace on earth to people who enjoy his (God’s) favor.â€
There are about twenty versions of this Blessings of Peace thing. Several indicate that only favored people can expect their god’s blessing of peace.
Violet used this tortuous phrasing to help us see the world from angles other than our own. For example, she would point out the silliness of believing anyone had all the answers to anything.
According to Violet, Muslims, Jews and Christians are all “People of the Bookâ€. That is, each faith takes its root from Abraham who was probably born in Ur, modern day Iraq. And each faith worships at least one of the same gods, albeit Christians believe Jesus was both man and god. Jews and Muslims do not believe that but Muslims honor Jesus as a prophet just below Mohammad.
But what many members of these three groups, and many other people for that matter, might have learned from Violet Willis is that peace and goodwill should not be confined to or towards particular groups.
What part of “Hey, Kids! Steal your parents’ guns and bring them to school!†sounds like a bad idea?
If you answered, “All of it,†you may be a conservative.
A San Francisco production company, Sleeper 13 Productions, created what they call a “Public Service Announcement†video in which a young boy sneaks into his parents’ bedroom, steals a handgun out of a dresser drawer and hides it in his backpack.
He then carries the gun onto the school bus and into a classroom. After class, he shocks the teacher at her desk by taking the gun out of his backpack and slamming it onto her desk.
“Can you take this away? I don’t feel safe with a gun in my house,†the boy pouts.
The “public service†ad then wraps with the tag line, “Our children deserve a safe world. Stop gun violence now.â€
The company’s president and this ad’s producer, Rejina Sincic, has replied to outraged viewers on Twitter that she’s “entertained†by their comments.
Liberals are not “entertained†by police in schools or military recruiting in schools and have promoted zero tolerance laws that have outlawed skeet and trap club students from having unloaded shotguns in the trunks of their locked vehicles on campus.
Students have been expelled and denied graduation for such offenses.
Now, this “progressive†gun control idea is to encourage children to commit felonies by stealing weapons from their parents, carrying them onto school buses and tossing the guns onto their teachers’ desks.
According to the credits, the video was shot with permission from a local school in Oakland.
Brilliant.
This exhibition of liberal dysphoric mania over guns is also apparent in the recurrent exercise in futility known as “gun buy-backs.â€
The faulty logic is that criminals will give up their guns for a hundred dollars each and this will permanently eliminate guns from the hands of evil-doers.
How quaint.
The real result is that hundreds of old, useless guns are dumped for more than they’re worth along with the occasional AR-15 that some widow’s husband never fired.
A 1999 article in the journal “Law and Order†reported that some people sold guns to police during buybacks and then used the money to buy new guns.
How reassuring.
University studies around the country have found gun buy-backs do not reduce gun violence or gun suicides. Not even a little.
Jon Vernick, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University who has co-authored two studies on the question, says there is no evidence that buybacks reduce gun violence.
A 2004 report by the National Academy of Sciences called “Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review†said, “The theoretical premise for gun buy-back programs is that the program will lead to fewer guns on the streets because fewer guns are available for either theft or trade and that consequently violence will decline. It is the committee’s view that the theory underlying gun buy-back programs is badly flawed and the empirical evidence demonstrates the ineffectiveness of these programs.â€
“The continuation of buyback programs is a triumph of wishful thinking over all the available evidence,†Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California at Davis, told a reporter.
No fewer than a dozen studies performed by universities, police and newspapers have revealed the same result.
These facts won’t stop the liberals who also tell kids to steal their parent’s guns and turn them in at school.
Gun buy-backs are very popular with liberals who know their true value: enabling left-wing politicians to gather more votes from a constituency that truly believes the politician using tax dollars for the buybacks is helping them.
The real truth is that the politicians know the buybacks are useless in fighting crime and very profitable in getting votes from people ignorant of the buy-back’s failures.
Let’s hope American school kids haven’t been propagandized by the left to the point of actually stealing their parents’ guns and carrying them to school.
They’ll find the same treatment liberal policies have given to innocent kids with an empty trap gun in their locked vehicle: a police record and likely expulsion.
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City County Observer has just been informed well known Evansville hotel closed it’s doors on Friday.
Employees of the Clarion Inn, on Highway 41, tell us the owner closed the hotel around 2:00 pm.
We were told by Clarion Inn Employees that most of the reservations are being transferred to Hampton Inn, Evansville
.No one in the management position at the hotel was available to comment on the unexpected closing. Â However a few employees told the CCO that they are in the process of issuing refunds to guests who ave made advance reservations.
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A woman who was intoxicated while she attended to business at the courthouse in Crawfordsville lost her appeal of a felony drunken-driving conviction Wednesday.
A driver saw Courtney West drinking beer behind the wheel of her car while parked outside the Montgomery County Courthouse on July 1, 2013. He called 911 and an officer was dispatched, pulling up to block West’s running car. The officer asked West what she was doing, and she replied, “I’m trying to pull out, you were in my way.â€
West was asked to step out of the car, and she failed a battery of field sobriety tests. Her blood alcohol content tested 0.23 percent while at the police station. She was convicted of Class D felony operating a vehicle while intoxicated and Class D felony operating a vehicle with a blood alcohol content above 0.15 percent.
The appeals panel found evidence was sufficient to affirm the OWI conviction. Senior Judge Patrick Sullivan noted a revised statute was took effect the day of West’s arrest, and the circumstances of West’s case prevailed upon the court for the first time to interpret the definition of “operator†under the revised law.
In 2013, the General Assembly amended I.C. 9-13-2-117.5, defining “operate†as “to navigate or otherwise be in actual physical control of a vehicle.†Applying the plain language of the statute, Sullivan wrote, “A reasonable finder of fact could conclude from this evidence that West was in ‘actual physical control’ of the running car when (the officer) approached her, and thus she operated the vehicle as defined by statute.â€
The panel did remand the case, though, to vacate the operating with a BAC over 0.15 percent conviction. The trial court erred by entering judgment on the charge prior to merging it with the OWI conviction. “(M)erger was insufficient to remedy the double jeopardy violation,†the court held.
The case is Courtney West v. State of Indiana, 54A05-1404-CR-173.