Monday Opinion
Read Joseph E. diGenova, Todd Starnes, Burt Prelutsky, Tony Perkins, Kathryn Jean Lopez and more.
Best of Right Opinion
- Joseph E. diGenova: The Politicization of the FBI
- Todd Starnes: School Suspends War Vet Who Vowed to Protect Students
- Burt Prelutsky: School Daze
- Tony Perkins: Is Country Music Going the Way of the NFL?
- Kathryn Jean Lopez: The Love of Adoption
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Opinion in Brief
Burt Prelutsky: “Everybody agrees it’s tragic when innocent people are killed. But why must we pretend that it’s worse when it takes place at a school? How is it better if youngsters are killed at the local mall or at a movie theater or a rock concert? All of them constitute soft targets. Heck, as we saw at Fort Hood, when Major Nidal Hasan murdered a dozen of his fellow soldiers, we, as a society, have become so deranged that even Army bases have become gun-free zones. … My point isn’t to diminish what happened in Parkland but to point out that those on the Left seem to view all murders through a prism of their propaganda value. If they thought they could get more mileage out of church shootings, the endless homicides in Baltimore or the attack on the Republican congressmen at the baseball field in Virginia, they would focus on those crimes. But they realize they can better utilize school shootings emotionally because of the age of the victims, even though those crimes should be the easiest to avoid, simply by using metal detectors at the school entrance, arming and training teachers and coaches, and turning over students showing homicidal tendencies to the cops. … The sad truth is that those calling for commonsense limitations on gun ownership are lying with every breath they take. What they really want is for the federal government to confiscate firearms, the Second Amendment be damned!”