The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, June 2,.1982-Page 11
A PISTOL IN EVERY HOME?
Gun ownership becomes city law
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) - Man-
datory gun ownership became the law
in this Atlanta suburb yesterday, and
housewife Karen Martin said it comfor-
ted her to know that if someone broke
into her duplex, she "could get rid of
them real fast."
The implementation of the new law
brought the city another wave of
publicity and a legal challenge from the
American Civil Liberties Union but lit-
tle in the way of reaction from residen-
ts.
"I DON'T FEEL any different"
having a gun in the house now, said
- Martin, who added, "It feels good to
know if any body came in here, you cold
get rid of them real fast."
She said her husband borrowed a gun
from his brother in nearby Car-
tersyille, . She said her husband and
MSU
fraternity
photograph
criticized as
racist
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members of the MSU black community
} last week. That meeting "helped us
gain a better understanding of the black
community," he said.
MSU's Anti-discrimination Judicial
Board will decide whether to take
disciplinary action against the frater-
nity, according to MSU Assistant Vice
President for Student Affairs Jim
Studer.
1 Studer defended MSU Greek Adviser
Jan Curshman, whose resignation has
been demanded by the Lansing NAACP
and other groups. Curshman had been
aware of the statue in the Theta Chi
photograph several weeks before the
Greek Week supplement was published,
he said, but she had told the
photographer to either take a new
photograph or alter the old one. He said-
the photographer had told Curahman
that the photo had been changed.
"Somehow, another print got in the
paper. Nobody knows how that hap-
pened," he said. Curshman referred all
questions to Studer.
STAFF MEMBERS in the State News
advertising department, which handled
the publication of the supplement, said
they were not aware of the statue in the
photograph before it was published.
General Manager Allen Swartzell said
the photographs for the supplement
were received so late that they weren't
examined very closely.
I would hope that I would have pulled
it," if the statue had been noticed
earlier, Swartzell said, but he added
such speculation was "like playing
'Monday morning quarterback.' " He
said he had no intention of resigning.
"There was no overt act of malice
anywhere along the way," Swartzell
said. He blamed the situation on a
"general lack of understanding of the
sensibilities of others."
'It feels good to know if anybody came in here,
you could get rid of them real fast. '
-Karen Martin,
Kennesaw resident
two of their four children have handled
guns while hunting, and she does not
consider the weapon a safety hazard.
"The kids don't even know where it
is. they didn't even ask," she said.
THE ORDINANCE, adopted
unanimously by the city council March
15, requires heads of households in the
city if 5,400 people to own and maintain
a firearm and ammunition. It exempts
convicted felons, the disabled and those
with religious objections.
The council acknowledged it was
reacting against passage of an ordinan-
ce in the Chicago suburb of Morton
Grove which bans ownership of han-
dguns by most private citizens.
Dave Collier, owner of a downtown
hardware store, said the law has
brought "very little interest" and rio in-
creased deman for ammunition or
guns.
THE LAW HAS no penalty provision,
but Mayor Darvin Purdy said yester-
day the council has interpreted the city
code to require a $5 fine for violations.
Purdy said there will be no "vigorous
enforcement."
Meanwhile, the American Civil
Liberties Union asked a federal court in
Atlanta to prohibit any enforcement of
the law, Gene Guerrero, executive
secretary of the ACLU in Georgia, said.
Gerrrero, who said the ACLU acted in
behalf of Kennesaw resident Richard
Butler, termed the law "an illegal, un-
constitutinal taking of liberty and an
invasion of privacy in that the gover-
nment of Kennesaw is telling people
what they must do without any showing
of any compelling reason to do so."
Purdy said the ACLU's action proved
"they're not interested in protecting
civil liberties or constitutinal rights."
Purdy listed national recognition first
when asked about the law's effects on
the city, previously known mainly as
the site of a Civil War battle. He also
said attendance at a city-owned
museum "is.substantially up."
Daily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS
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