Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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It's Not a Tool, It's a Weapon
[Read the article: I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Guns are expressly designed to kill things. That's why they were invented. Don't give me that "guns don't kill people" line. The hell they don't. If you need to shoot to eat, fine. If it's just to feel all manly and protective, there are heavily advertised enhancement products that are less injurious (but watch that four hour limit).
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2nd Amendment Shills
[Read the article: I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where are the gun nuts when we need 'em? We need them here to provide sorely needed comic relief when they try to explain away "well ordered militia" and "arms". At the time of the founding of this nation, citizen WERE the army. Their muskets, the cannon in the town square, were the armory. Come on, NRA apologists, let's hear your rap. Mommy, I want a blackhawk gunship. It's "arms", right, gunnutts? You disappoint me. The memo must not have gone out yet. But it will. bet on it.
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David V Goliath
[Read the article: I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Civility on day when 33 college students have been murdered is a quaint notion. And the founding father had a deep, and well reasoned, fear of a standing army. Jump forward a couple hundred years to Eisenhower's prophetic warning about the military industrial complex. If you want to comfort yourself with the notion that unorganized mobs with Winchesters can take on the Bush fascist armies, the most heavily armed in the history of man, then that's your perfect right. As for crawling, we lived a long time in Wyomiing, and know something of hunting. A 270 rifle and an antelope at 400 yards, and we ate well all winter. We don't own those guns, since we moved back to what passes for civilization. But if it comes to it, we'll fend for ourselves quite nicely. thanks for the offer. The 2nd amendment horse has been out of the barn for fifty years, minimum. It means nothing.
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Mr. Sugarman
[Read the article: I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pronghorned antelope are about as common as rabbits in the Northern Rockies. They're no more endangered than elk or mule deer. They're also yummy. we had four kids to feed, and if you want to anthropmorphize to your heart's content, be my guest. rustling cattle: wow, you really did believe those westerns. Check out Shane; our house was about five miles or so south of where the film was primarily set on (wait for it) Antelope Flats. And I can buy buffalo at my local Northern California supermarket, and I do. Tastes like home (and as lean as skinless chicken). I actually don't think we're that far apart philosophically. I'm not a survivalist, either, but I am a veteran and a westerner. We don't cotton to fascists, which is what we've got in Dee Cee. Have a good evening.
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David
[Read the article: I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would never countenance shooting a poor defenseless Disney character. As far as hunting for food, I would hold it's more honest than buying your ground round at "Safe"way, and by a fur peace. There is a compelling argument to be made for vegetarian diets; two of our four now adult children eat fish, but nothing with big brown eyes or cloven hooves (except republikans), and dairy products. I cook dinner for the whole family (15 or more most weekends), and happily adjust to whatever culinary judgement is prevailing. The deeper question about gun ownership, which is obviously protected by the 2A, is about ethics and efficacy. Buy a 9mm if it makes you feel safer. A son in law of ours is an Oakland policeman, so we know, viscerally, what guns do in American cities. It's ugly, and getting uglier. I say none of this with any malice, except toward the reichwing republikans who use gun rights as a club, then hide in their gated communities while the poor starve in droves. Off to band practice.
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the sugar man
[Read the article: I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, let me put together the resumes of all my family so I can find out what you find satisfactory. I live for your approval. A piano player in a whorehouse; what does that make soldiers in Bagdhad: the Buchenwald symphony? It must be a chore, carrying around the weight of all that judgement. Sissy-fussbudget. Nite, sugarplum.
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Sugar Daddy
[Read the article: I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Insulting my family and an officer of the law earned you contempt. Deal with it. Have a lovely day.
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Sugar Cracker
[Read the article: I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My son in law is not white. Typical racist assumption. Say hi to the gentry at the country club. Shed a few crocodile tears over those poor hooved ungulates. My wife taught on the Wind River Indian reservation. If there's a way to know less than nothing, you've mastered it. Wounded knee is the least of your prejudices; the primary difficulties are truncated frontal lobes. Now, let's hear more suburban white boy babble from your sick bag of tricks.
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hyperglycemic
[Read the article: I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]too much sugar makes you incoherent. if it's not, what's that, or when? Is this a special occasion, or do you start drinking this early every day? reference: whorehouse, native american massacres, etcetera.