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Through the Front Door! by Jim Kuebelbeck Comments from a Minnesota Water Dowser As long as humans are humans, there will be crime in this world. While admitting, some individuals who commit some of the crimes in our society are mentally ill, there are others who do not fall into this category. Many individuals who commit especially horrendous crimes (mass killings for example) truly lack any sense of self-esteem or personal worth, and in their deluded thinking “want to make a name for themselves”, mistakenly believing their actions will make such an impact on society they will be long remembered! There is a need for a new direction and thinking in this country, and it is NOT a need for more so-called gun control or background checks. No background check will ever deter some mentally ill individual from committing some horrendous crime against humanity. There is simply no way to predict the future actions of a mentally ill person, and it’s time for society (and our legislators) to realize this. I have some suggestions for how to combat the gun-related crimes in this country, and they’re really quite simple. For starters, the media should make it a policy that when someone commits some horrendous, sickening crime against society, no mention of the person’s name (or family name) should be included in the news reports. The news media should only report “some mentally deluded in- dividual” committed the particular crime. On gun control? My suggestions: (1) For a first offense, anyone committing a crime (burglary, damage to property, vehicle theft, fleeing law enforcement, assault, shoplifting, breaking and entering, home invasion, or other such crime) while in possession of a firearm (or replica of a firearm) would automatically incur a sentence of incarceration for a period of one year. Any such offense would con- stitute a felony, and could not be plea bargained down to a lower offense to re- sult in nothing more than a mere slap on the wrist! (2) For a conviction of any type of crime against another person or persons, while in possession of a firearm (or replica), all privileges of living freely in a civilized society would automatically be forfeited, and result in a minimum sentence of five years in prison without the possibility of parole. (3) Anyone convicted for the death of a person (or persons) with a firearm would be sentenced to a minimum of ten years behind bars without the possibility of early release or parole. Enacting such a law would elimi- nate the high costs of public defense at- torneys who make every effort to prolong legal proceedings at great expense to taxpayers and clients. The costs of im- paneling juries would thus be reduced as well, by the certain decrease of gun- related crimes. The net result of enact- ing such legislation would immediately reduce the costs of incarceration also, because most criminals would be far less likely to commit any crime while in Kuebelbeck cont’d on page 46. 38 MAY 2017 WorldWide Drilling Resource ®