Letters to the Editor
Lynx
Published Letters: 1589 Editor's Choice: 126
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Derbyshire
[Read the article: Compassionate conservatism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And others that ask this questions are probably the same ones that'd be huddled in a ball on the floor, crying and shitting their pants if it ever happened to them. It is so much easier to be brave sitting in your nice, cozy office. I'm sure this guy has already filed his excuses for why he isn't serving in Iraq, despite approving of the war, now he needs to find more people to call cowards when they're in situations that'd reduce him to a quivering pile of shit.
This is the Right Wing for you, folks. They've never found a victim they couldn't blame.
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Buffalonian
[Read the article: Compassionate conservatism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Key words in your little anecdote:
Those students were former law enforcement agents
an unarmed student who was also a former police officer
I don't see anything there about "General populace". These were people with special training for what to do in crisis situations and how to use firearms. Arming an entire school will result in nothing more than many more killings on school campuses.
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Recent history argues against this
[Read the article: Compassionate conservatism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Buffalonian: Practically speaking, if Democrats want to take back the White House, they might try not insulting half the population of the country
Why? That's what the Republicans have been doing and Bush is safely ensconced in the White House. Or are you saying that if we're going to do that, we have to rig elections the way the Republicans have? You know, dirty tricks, intimidating vote counters, rigging voting machines, targeting likely Republican voters and threatening them if they go to the polls, etc...
Hell, the Republicans love fear and anger. Maybe if we insult them enough and in the right way, they'll vote Democrat! Also, they're only around a third of the country and falling rapidly. Or are you saying people that speak like Bush are 1/2 the country? Either way, you'll want to check your math.
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Robert Kuntz
[Read the article: Compassionate conservatism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Once the police were on the scene, why were private citizens allowed to start taking pot shots at the guy? Why didn't the police do their jobs and get the yahoos the hell out of there? And did any citizens start before the police showed up? If not, we're right back to average citizens doing squat and the professionals being the ones that made a difference.
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Further Reading
[Read the article: Note to politicians]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is funny that you'd choose to write about this today. I just started re-reading Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick. If histories of the era aren't your thing, maybe you'd want to try this. It captures the era pretty well I think and shows the road we barely escaped. They're still trying, but their ideals of a police state are antithetical to America's underpinnings and they'll never manage to succeed.
The McCarthys and Nixons, Roves and Cheneys and Bushes are all of a piece with the Stalins and Breshnevs and Berias of this world. They pretend they're different, but they're authoritarians who want nothing more than power. They aren't two sides of the same coin, they're the same side. McCarthy destroyed many lives and Nixon was right at his side as he did it. To say he wasn't so bad is to ignore what he did altogether.
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Impeach Scalia
[Read the article: Supreme Court upholds a federal abortion ban]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It can be done and he's given ample cause. He's failed to recuse himself numerous times when he's had a personal interest in the case being decided. Were he a lower court judge, he'd have been censured multipple times by now.
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Gun Nuts always respond first
[Read the article: Repeal the Second Amendment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why? 'cause they live in fear. Fear is also what prompts them to jump on anyone that proposes regulation. They also love conflating regulation with control and prohibition.
The arms the founding fathers discussed are not what we have today. Militias are definately a part of the amendment, whether you think you have to be in one to get the benefit of the amendment or think the amendment just provides for the basis for the creation of militias. However, militias are archaic and no longer exist.
For those that say fascism will creep in without private guns, look around you! Fascism is creeping in and the guns aren't making a damn bit of difference. The all controlling, keep you dependant and subjugated government is a dream of the conservatives, not the liberals, you idiots. You just keep listening to Rush and keep your popguns while the rest of your rights are flushed down the toilet.
For those of you that are looking for someone to blame about this latest tragedy, remember that he lied on his application to buy a gun. Had the dealer done his job, the kid would have had to go get an illegal gun. That alone might have stopped him. Had gun laws been more effective, had the NRA not made it a mission to protect anyone selling any gun to anyone for any reason, maybe the dealer would have taken the laws seriously. You want blame? Look in a damn mirror.
As far as needing guns to overthrow the government, Iraq wasn't a place where citizens had lots of guns before the invasion. They sure do now. You really think you have to have them now in case someday the government needs overthrowing? When will you reach that point? How do you decide? For the love of Pete, get your heads out of your asses and realize you're lying to yourselves. You have these sick little power fantasies and like to run around pretending you'd have the balls to use the guns if push came to shove. Bullshit. Not only won't push come to shove, you'll sit in your homes, glued to Fox, pretending that everything is fine with the world, reporting on your neighbors as your friends are hauled off to camps.