Your June 4 editorial about mass
shootings was thoughtful and, for once, you did not waste ink attacking
the NRA. Treating mass shootings as a public health matter, rather than
as a political matter, is an interesting idea. The AIDS “massacre”
probably would have been mitigated had AIDS been treated as a public
health problem rather than a political problem.
You
took a positive step by not mentioning the killer’s name; I am
convinced that many of these shootings are done for publicity, and the
less you report these incidents the less power you give them in sick
minds.
But
then you turn around and run two ghastly anti-NRA cartoons on June 8.
Cartoons such as these make responsible firearms owners such as me your
opponent, not someone willing to work with you to stop these horrible
events.
I challenge you: Write an editorial not of opinion but of facts, facts proving the NRA advocates, or that its members participate in, mass shootings. What is interesting is that you do not publish cartoons ridiculing alcoholic beverage brewers after fatal or nonfatal vehicle accidents.
It's Greensboro. I knew nothing about the place until this year; I got a new job which required me to spend 2 weeks there in March for training. Lovely area, populated by lots of nice folks, but I was amazed at how liberal the city of Greensboro itself is. I never would have imagined that the NC Piedmont had a concentration of such-minded folks. Get out of town, though, it's it's normal people.
ReplyDeleteAs a general rule, move to the smallest town you would be interested in.
DeleteIt gets worse the further west you go in NC. Asheville is not a good place to wear a MAGA cap.
DeleteYa think Greensboro's full of Liberals, try Chapel Hill or in my neck of the woods Asheville. Problem is in the last 20 years we've had an enormous influx of New York, New Jersey and other solid blue States residents decamp their high taxed and congested realms. Sadly, they brought their pie-in-the-sky feel-good Liberal policies with them.
DeleteA/C should have never been invented. :)
DeleteIt gets worse the further west you go in NC. Asheville is not a good place to wear a MAGA cap.
DeleteI imagine.
Unknown above has illustrated the problem with politics: The sociopath and ill-tempered have become the only type attracted to public service. Hence the personality of the city governance at odds with common man's point of view. True in Winston-Salem, true in Greensboro, etc. The larger the city the worse the division.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't think Raleigh and state government is different; it is, in practice, much worse.
Cheers just the same.
the personality of the city governance at odds with common man's point of view.
DeleteThanks.
"The NRA is bad, really bad, but Gun Owners of America is worse than bad." --former Senate Minority Leader, Harry Reid
ReplyDeleteThanks, Harry. I'm a proud Gun Owners of America member and as a quote goes: "It's better to be despised by the despicable, than admired by the admirable."
--Ron W
Doofus Reid.
DeleteBFYTW !!! Reid is lower than snake shit.
ReplyDeleteThat's low......:)
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