To the high school students of America:
You are about five years away from becoming legislators and governors. Plan now to take control of gun control legislation. You can never eliminate the right of a person to bear arms, but you can restrict the areas in which he can fire it. A person cannot fire a gun within the city limits at the present time. The firing of a gun should be restricted on all private and public land. The exception should be self-defense, law enforcement, and in licensed firing ranges.
Guns should be allowed during open hunting seasons and only within the bounds of the legal hunting area by licensed hunters carrying valid hunting tags. It can be enforced the same way killing wildlife out of season is now enforced.
Boyd Zollinger, St. George
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