The media stretches some ‘close calls’
Dear Editor:
Police have arrested the man who fired two shots at the White House and charged him with “Attempted Assassination of The President,” even though the President was thousands of miles away at the time. Some media outlets are even calling it a close call for the President.
I can certainly relate to close calls. I had a real close call last weekend. Just before bedtime Saturday night, I saw what I thought to be a burglar outside my bedroom window. I grabbed my shotgun, raised the window just a bit, and fired two shotgun blasts at him. When I turned on the porch light it turned out to be my Sunday suit airing out on the clothes line. That was a real close call, just think–“If it was Sunday, I would have been wearing that suit.”
C.I. Greenwood
Springfield, IL
One gunowner’s idea for ‘going green
Dear Editor:
Al Gore might not approve of this, but my idea of “Going Green” is replacing the red laser on my personal carry piece with a green one.
Capt. Roy West, US A Ret.
Philadelphia, PA
Urges boycotts for merchant gun ban sign
Dear Editor,
I went by the Goodwill Thrift Store on Buford Hwy in Atlanta, GA, recently and posted prominently on the front door was a sign banning firearms inside. This sort of anti-gun sign can and will spread like wildfire unless they get a serious backlash. We need to boycott the Goodwill and any other business that posts such a sign but they need to see the call for a boycott published as many places as possible so that they are aware of it. When the Goodwill has a donation drive all gunowners should bluntly refuse to give to them because of their anti-gun stand. Only widespread publicity can stop this cancer in our midst. Corporate America is politically correct but still dollar driven.
Jim Dickson
Decatur, GA
What USA and Europe have in common
Dear Editor,
Europe and the USA have many things in common, one of which noted currently is the massive debt crisis both are experiencing because of politicians who fail to learn from history. George Santayana noted that those who fail to learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them.
In both Europe and the United States, power-hungry politicians have been trying to buy votes with money we don’t have, taxing not only this generation but every generation in the future, guaranteeing a lower standard of living for our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. These short-sighted politicos, thinking only of the present, seem to think they can go on forever, steadily increasing the public debt, by just printing more and more money without an equal increase in goods and services, hoping to find someone to buy our consequently less and less valuable bonds.
As history has repeatedly shown us, this does not work. Every society that has tried this has collapsed. A prime example is the Soviet Union. If socialism were a better system, we would all be speaking Russian. Previously democratic civilizations and nations that have tried this have collapsed into dictatorship. Some noteworthy examples are the Greeks, the Romans, and the post-World War I Weimar Republic of Germany, the latter printing so much money that its currency became virtually worthless, bankrupting the country, and resulting in the establishment of Hitler’s Nazi party (National Socialist) dictatorship that brought on the horrors of World War II.
It is time to rid ourselves of such history-ignoring, out-of-touch-with-reality, power-mad politicians, ousting them from power, and never let them in office again.
Harold Bob Jones
Blair, OK
