Monkeyleg
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From Sunday's (10/15/06) letters to the editor column in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
If necessary, curtail freedom to reduce danger
Teachers armed with guns? Are we totally witless?
Are we to provide the kids who commit school shootings the added thrilling scenario of an OK Corral shoot-out? The potential for stray bullets killing innocents whose misfortune it is to just be in school that day is unthinkable. Do we not have enough children to mourn in those precious ones gunned down on our city streets? Come on, people.
Let's ban all firearms in Wisconsin except for those in the possession of our agencies meant for our protection. Many new small businesses could develop by shops opening to rent hunting guns only to animal game hunters in animal game territories.
When freedoms are abused to the point of our endangerment, everyone suffers by having those freedoms curtailed. We deserve that.
We must stop giving kids - and stupid adults - exact instructions on how to kill on TV and in movies. It is the same with sexual portrayals. Those who produce such filth make millions, getting us to subscribe to it by calling it "adult fare."
These TV and movie producers don't just think they are duping us; they actually are fooling us. I say to each of them: Do your part to stop this debased way of life in our blessed America. Now.
Betty J. Wieselman
Milwaukee
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."--- Winston Churchill
If necessary, curtail freedom to reduce danger
Teachers armed with guns? Are we totally witless?
Are we to provide the kids who commit school shootings the added thrilling scenario of an OK Corral shoot-out? The potential for stray bullets killing innocents whose misfortune it is to just be in school that day is unthinkable. Do we not have enough children to mourn in those precious ones gunned down on our city streets? Come on, people.
Let's ban all firearms in Wisconsin except for those in the possession of our agencies meant for our protection. Many new small businesses could develop by shops opening to rent hunting guns only to animal game hunters in animal game territories.
When freedoms are abused to the point of our endangerment, everyone suffers by having those freedoms curtailed. We deserve that.
We must stop giving kids - and stupid adults - exact instructions on how to kill on TV and in movies. It is the same with sexual portrayals. Those who produce such filth make millions, getting us to subscribe to it by calling it "adult fare."
These TV and movie producers don't just think they are duping us; they actually are fooling us. I say to each of them: Do your part to stop this debased way of life in our blessed America. Now.
Betty J. Wieselman
Milwaukee
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."--- Winston Churchill