My letter to the paper

[Jay Kominek]

Ok, so the University of Colorado College Republicans had a little Second Amendment Day thing on the 31st. I went. Ho hum. Some good speakers (David Kopel), some lame speakers (some girl from CU Colorado Springs). Nothing exciting happened. The Colorado Daily, a free newspaper, widely read by the students printed this article:

http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2004/03/31/news/news04.txt

Then somebody wrote a letter:

http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2004/04/06/opinion/opinion03.txt
("CU Republicans loud, but not wise, on guns" a bit more than halfway down the page)

So I wrote back to the paper:

http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2004/04/12/opinion/opinion03.txt
(Mine is the first letter on the page. It should appear tomorrow.)

So... what do you think? In retrospect, I feel I sort of bungled my first paragraph, but besides that I'm happy with it. Hopefully I'll provoke a response from the Regents. Something besides them handing down a little note to my boss asking for me to be fired, that is.

 

[Werewolf]

The original letter writer was your typically ill informed anti tossing about emotionally charged arguments with no substance. Reading it made me sad. To think that in this day and age that that level of scholarship is what comes out of your average college student.

jkominek your response was well written, logical and thought provoking for any anti who reads opposing opinions with an open mind (is that possible for an anti).

Ya Done GOOD jkominek!

 

[P95Carry]

Pretty good letter ..... and I just hope those with heads in warm dark places read it ... properly.

Why oh why are anti's such jerks.!

 

[Mulliga]

Good letter. I watch for this kind of thing all the time in my paper, too. Next time, address the suicide issue head-on - if someone is depressed enough to shoot themselves, they can sure as heck jump off a bridge, slit their wrists, or take a bunch of pills. And for the record, suicide by gun is more humane than other methods - if someone really wants to exit this world, I think they should have a clean, effective exit.

 

[Reno]

Good job. I immediately started writing a rebuttal in class when I read that tripe last week, but I was too busy to finish it and send it in. I know, excuses excuses.

That's far better than mine regardless.

 

[Night Guy]

if someone is depressed enough to shoot themselves, they can sure as heck jump off a bridge, slit their wrists, or take a bunch of pills.

Just look at the gun-free utopia of NYU. Kids are jumping off of buildings left and right. It makes no difference whether or not they have guns. If they want to kill themselves, they will.

Why is the truth so obvious, yet so often ignored?

 

[Yowza]

Werewolf

What's even sadder is that the original letter was actually written by a faculty member .

Rick

 

[HankB]

Uh oh . . . the rebuttal letter uses the racially biased Eurocentric concept of reason, logic, and fact in its attempt to counter the anti-gun arguments of a learned member of the faculty, demonstrating a marked intolerance for issues involving cultural diversity as well as a fundamental lack of respect for the vast and lofty wisdom of university staff.

Worse still, the uninformed reader might draw the obviously incorrect conclusion that this sort of fact-based Westernized propaganda has merit, and that the original (and unquestionably correct) letter written by a member of the faculty was little more than the knee-jerk reaction of a know-nothing, politically correct, ignoramus.

This borders on hate speech - expect contact from University Thought Police shortly.

 

[Jay Kominek]

Woohoo. My letter did indeed appear in the printed version of the paper this morning. (I didn't really doubt that it would, but I thought I'd mention it anyways.)

...a fundamental lack of respect for the vast and lofty wisdom of university staff.

I'm a member of the faculty, too, actually.

This borders on hate speech - expect contact from University Thought Police shortly.

Yeah, I'll be unsurprised if I get a call from someone who isn't happy. It isn't quite noon yet, though. So we'll see.
It'd be worth a bit of trouble to get a rise out of the Regents.

 

[7.62FullMetalJacket]

Fight the fight. Good response to their drivel.

If someone wanted to clear leather over an argument in class, they could do it now. Both acts (carrying and drawing) would be illegal. That it has not happened pretty much guarantees there will be no blood running in the halls of the university.

 

[Reno]

If you get any huffy-puffy calls from other faculty, be sure to relay their complaints here.

On a slight tangent I'm trying to get written in to a position in the engineering center government. If I get in I'm going to push for a condemnation of the regents and their anti BS, and filibuster anything bordering on absurdity (probably 90%+ of everything)

 

[PATH]

Keep up the fight against the dark side of the force! You are doing us all a great service!

 

[Standing Wolf]

In retrospect, I feel I sort of bungled my first paragraph...

Your first paragraph is fine.