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you have to registering yourself and/or your weapon so that law enforce- 
ment officials can do a better job of policing the illegal traffic in possession 
of handguns? 
The argument also is made that no gun control law will completely 
Gisarm criminals since they can always find ways to get guns. No one 
suggests gun control laws as a panacea to our crime problems. No law is 
completely effective. It does not follow, however, that we should repeal 
a law simply because it is not completely effective in solving the problems 
which gave rise to the law. Under such reasoning, we would have no 
laws whatsoever. 
The fact of the matter is that the reckless use and possession of guns 
is making a shambles of our society. It is easier to buy a gun today in 
Illinois than it is to buy a mink coat. (The last time I used such analogy, 
I said it was easier to buy a gun than it was to buy a Barbie doll, and I 
received several Barbie dolls in mail from opponents to gun legislation. 
I am hoping they will take the hint.) More people have been killed in 
homicides by gun in this country since 1900 than in all of our wars since 
our country began. Our urge to live ought to cause us to do something 
serious about the urge to kill. 
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I think that autumn now 1s here; 
Not measured yet by leaves in flight, 
By lowering skies that give no cheer, 
Or frosts distilled from starry night. 
I think it comes—because today 
A flock of warblers worked my tree; 
Because a catbird, wrapped in gray, 
Hummed summer songs too quietly. 
But most of all, the nighthawks came 
And circled slowly. Did they grieve 
To leave the rooftops which they claim 
And sadly, softly, take their leave? 
Reluctant seemed their circling band 
To leave for far antipodes; 
Perhaps they knew this mellow land 
Would writhe too soon in winter's squeeze. 
But when spring calls, and flowers march forth— 
The tropics quickly left behind— 
These birds will race back to the north, 
Their old cunabula to find. 
—RHarlow B. Mills 
