Speak Out

In response to “ARMED GUARDS IN SCHOOLS:” What an irresponsible and foolish comment. What’s wrong with you? By your logic, we should let every citizen have a police car and badge, too. Some truth to your comment, though. Letting children learn gun safety will keep them from being gun-ignorant adults afraid of what they don’t understand. (reply)

In response to “TOSS THE MAG:” You forgot the other option available for disposition of any 11 or larger magazines: Give it to the U.S. Dept. of Justice. They have ready-made customers for these guns... the Mexican drug cartels they sold weapons to! (reply)

In response to “COUNTED:” I agree with everything you said. A large part of the legislation that has been passed in this country is due to our politicians getting votes. Congress does what will get them re-elected, sometimes (not all the time) it’s just the right thing to do, most of the time it’s just the right thing to do that will get them re-elected. Let’s change their emphasis. Vote out the stodgy old-timers and elected new fresh younger blood more in tune with the times. (reply)

In response to “REAL THREAT?” Judging by your sardonic and vacuous remarks, it’s fairly obvious that your IQ is similar to that of a common earthworm, with all due respect to the common earthworm. (reply)

I just got through watching the media soften the Benghazi hearings. They were blaming the Republicans for asking questions about the incident. If it were a Republican, in office it would be a disgrace and a cover up. It’s a Democrat, so it’s a shame it happened, but those things happened because the Republicans cut the spending on security. Of course it couldn’t be Obama and Clinton at fault for not sending help – no, no, of course not. (reply)

In response to “ARMED GUARDS IN SCHOOLS:” Your sarcasm is misplaced. A person trained to defend our children – by force, if need be – is a good idea and it’s a decision for each town to decide on. After all, some banks have guards just to protect a few thousand dollars, so how much is a child’s life worth? (reply)

In response to “GOES WAY BACK:” Terrorism goes back many centuries, not decades, and you can’t just name any old murderer and call him a terrorist. Terrorism is the use of violence to intimidate or instill fear for political purpose. Serial murderers, mass murderers and gangsters are not terrorists. And if you look at all the terrorists on the FBI’s most-wanted terrorists list, all but one of them is Muslim. No one is blaming or accusing an entire culture. There may be 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, and there may be 1 billion of them who will never harm a fly. The problem is that there is absolutely no way to tell them apart. The Boston terrorists were described by neighbors as “lovely boys.” It’s time to drop political correctness, stop worrying about offending anyone, and start profiling! (reply)

In response to “INSENSITIVITY:” Yes, it is very insensitive to use the deaths of three people and injuries of hundreds to make a valid point about really stupid laws that will accomplish nothing; however, feel free to nauseatingly overuse the deaths of 20 children as a valid reason to take away everyone’s second amendment rights. (reply)

Let us not forget history, in particular Germany in the 1940s, and how the government slowly took away all the rights of a certain group, leaving them defenseless. We all know how that ended. It happened once, it can happen again! (reply)