TO THE EDITOR:
Three editorials encouraged this response thus thanking Dr. VanBuren, Ms. Dickinson and Mr. Collier for them. Confirming their perspectives: The baby formula crisis is proof of incompetence by all those involved in the administration, and other points made by the writer. For Dominion voting machines to be allowed signifies “the blind leading the blind”, lack of courage and any real leadership... proof of being in power too long. They look after bettering themselves rather than the people they pledged to serve. Shooting in NY and now TX: Sanctuary cities, liberal judges releasing criminals, inviting the wrong people to cross our borders, using up strategic oil reserves, worst of all freely killing unborn children and those in schools. (Politician’s criminal legislation has led to a degenerate way of living!) Do we really think a society like this can survive? History says NO! P.S. When my parents, I, and my children went to school you could enter the classroom any time, sit quietly in the back and observe. P.P.S. In the Roaring 20’s gangsters running booze openly carried machine guns often shooting their competition but not never children in a classroom. We’ve allowed bad people (including politicians) to poison our culture....they face no just punishment which allows criminal actions to continue. P.P.P.S. On their own, spoons don’t make people fat, nor pencils make mistakes or guns kill without a person behind each.
Tom Godlewski,
Palmer Twp., MN
TO THE EDITOR:
Are you as tired as I am of the rhetoric, sending thoughts and prayers, our hearts are breaking and it’s a mental illness problem after each mass shooting? It is time we do something before our children are the victims. I have read the constitution and find nothing that says we can’t raise the age to purchase firearms to 21. This one act could have an immediate effect without any infringement on our sacred constitutional rights. We have done just this with alcohol and cigarettes. Call your representatives and demand positive action, their job is to protect citizens and I am tired of complete inaction by our elected officials.
Rick Wittwer
Clear Lake, MN
TO THE EDITOR:
Solving the Problem. If you have a large pothole in the road that is causing people to drive off the road and injure themselves, posting warning signs and erecting guard rails doesn’t fix the problem. Fixing the pothole solves the problem. Mass murders, whether in schools or grocery store, is not solved by more cops or locked doors, it’s solved by not creating the people that commit these actions. Thirty years ago people were not committing these types of crimes and we didn’t have all of extra laws that we do now, and neither did our educational system or social media teach our children that they could do or become whatever they wanted. Today they are being taught that they can choose their sex. They are being told that if they are white, they are racist and if they are of a different color, they are oppressed, and that there is nothing they can do about it but be mad and that they need to “exact revenge” on whoever they feel is oppressing them through whatever means they believe is justified. I am not provided enough space in this Letter to the Editor, to describe all of the things that need to be changed; all of the problems brought on by the past 30 years of slippery slope, liberal policies and influences. While extra measures do need to be taken to protect us from this current generation of people that the educational/social media/government has programed, not until we go back to the family/educational system that we had 30-40 plus years ago are we going to fix the problem. Otherwise it’s just going to get worse.
Bret R. Collier
Big Lake, MN
