A Gun-Toting Father May Be Teaching His Son About Safety
I read Tom Danehy’s piece about running into a guy in a restaurant with a gun on his hip (July 29). Danehy quipped: What is this man teaching his son?
I often carry a pistol, since it is now lawful to do so in this state. Read the paper or watch the news reports. Statistics seem to verify that the nation feels a sense of unease and a feeling of peril. Arizona is at the forefront of this fear. The governor—standing in front of signs in our own desert warning us away from hiking, for fear of running into machine-gun-toting illegal aliens—is convincing evidence that the game has changed.
Regarding the gentleman in Danehy’s piece: Let’s assume he is teaching his son how to protect himself from harm. He is certainly protecting his family, isn’t he?
Now, as far as what your paper is teaching: In one article, I counted the infamous “F” bomb more than a dozen times. Then there was an ad for “women who are dominatrixes.”
And what, I might ask, are you teaching your children?
Roger Fulton
Danehy Is Right: Obama Has Been a Disappointment
Tom Danehy needs to make no apology for his opinion on Barack Obama (Aug. 12).
I consider myself a moderate, although under no circumstances would I ever vote for a Republican. Obama’s so-called accomplishments, such as health-care reform, would not have happened without Nancy Pelosi. In so many ways, he unfortunately reminds me of the previous president: a lot of talk, and he never finishes anything. My frustration has advanced to disgust, and I will not vote for him again.
Don’t even get me started on Gabrielle Giffords.
The Democrats are too arrogant and pitiful in their communications. However, the American people are the ones who got themselves in debt up to their butts with no way out. I have no sympathy for anyone but the poor and those who have found out how bad our insurance system really is.
Gregory E. Sweet
This article appears in Sep 2-8, 2010.
@Roger Fulton, last I heard, dominatrixes generally don’t off their clients.
@ Gregory Sweet, blaming the little people for “getting themselves in debt up to their butts” when in fact large financial interests were manipulating the capital and housing markets to make it appear to people that they were wealthy when they were not is exactly the ideology that those large interests want you to believe. People thought their homes were valuable; they were not. They thought that having their money forcefully put into pension funds was safe and lucrative; it was not. They believed that paying obscene amounts to the health insurance companies and health providers (especially doctors, hospitals, and technology makers) was equivalent to getting good health care; it was not. When you buy that cant hook, line, and sinker, and then end up voting for the Republicans — who will give it to you 150% more bitterly — you are as good as enslaved. I agree, Obama has been a big fat zero, but to shut down entirely…who ya gonna call, Ghostbusters?