October 12, 2017 at 4:53 p.m.
Offer solutions, not just criticism
Letters to the editor
To the editor:
The editorial page of the Oct. 5 edition of The Commercial Review was quintessential of the polemic surrounding the gun control debate in this country.
Jack Ronald’s editorial and Leonard Pitts Jr.’s column both recited the egregious examples of a plague too often visited upon innocent people (including most disturbingly, children) in this country. Both men offered reasonable solutions, or at least, a place to begin discussing solutions. Both men concluded that the usual “prayer and thoughts” platitudes were not going to solve anything.
I agree. Such platitudes are nothing more than, in my opinion, a big putrid load of bull excrement.
Marc Thiessen’s column was an indefectible and indefensible example of the aforementioned bull excrement as well.
I have always heard andbelieve that: “If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.”
I do not, in any way, advocate taking away anyone’s second amendments rights. I am in favor, however, of having a conversation on how we can make what has become an all-too-often tragic occurrence, more difficult to carry out.
Is there a solution?
In my opinion, yes, but we are not going to find it with our backs to one another. We must turn and face the often bitter and acerbic rhetoric that divides us.
How many more people have to die before we say: “That is enough?” How many more families have to bury a loved one before we say: “That is enough?”
Marc Thiessen does have a point in saying that disarming won’t make us safer.
Mr. Thiessen however, as typical, offered no solution to his query.
I would simplyask, if disarming won’t make us safer, what will?
Michael S. Kinser
Portland
The editorial page of the Oct. 5 edition of The Commercial Review was quintessential of the polemic surrounding the gun control debate in this country.
Jack Ronald’s editorial and Leonard Pitts Jr.’s column both recited the egregious examples of a plague too often visited upon innocent people (including most disturbingly, children) in this country. Both men offered reasonable solutions, or at least, a place to begin discussing solutions. Both men concluded that the usual “prayer and thoughts” platitudes were not going to solve anything.
I agree. Such platitudes are nothing more than, in my opinion, a big putrid load of bull excrement.
Marc Thiessen’s column was an indefectible and indefensible example of the aforementioned bull excrement as well.
I have always heard and
I do not, in any way, advocate taking away anyone’s second amendments rights. I am in favor, however, of having a conversation on how we can make what has become an all-too-often tragic occurrence, more difficult to carry out.
Is there a solution?
In my opinion, yes, but we are not going to find it with our backs to one another. We must turn and face the often bitter and acerbic rhetoric that divides us.
How many more people have to die before we say: “That is enough?” How many more families have to bury a loved one before we say: “That is enough?”
Marc Thiessen does have a point in saying that disarming won’t make us safer.
Mr. Thiessen however, as typical, offered no solution to his query.
I would simply
Michael S. Kinser
Portland
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