The Patriot Post® · Reader Comments

Editor’s Note: Each week we receive hundreds of comments and correspondences — and we read every one of them. What follows are a few thought-provoking comments about specific articles. The views expressed herein don’t necessarily reflect those of The Patriot Post.

Re: “Biden Stands on Sandy Hook Caskets Again”

“Biden has a lot of nerve to criticize gun ownership and to blame gun owners for ‘gun crime.’ Not one of the shootings taking place in gang-infested Democrat-run cities is lawful. The Second Amendment stands as a constitutional right, which can be abused and violated by bad people. Compare the abuse of that right to Biden’s abuse of the nation. He and his Democrat deep-staters have violated election laws, enabled violations of immigration laws, illegally kept the arrested January 6 protesters as political prisoners without formal charges or trials or any normal form of justice, colluded with China to bring COVID to the world, and are actively conducting a hostile, multifaceted overthrow of America’s Constitution and rule of law.” —Illinois

“The real problem with the ‘common sense’ gun control schemes that the Democrats keep proposing is this: There are far too many fools who think those proposals actually make any kind of sense, common or otherwise. Now, if someone were to propose something that actually addressed the causes of inner-city gun violence, I’d be willing to listen.” —Florida

Re: “Here Comes the Demos’ J6 Anniversary Party”

“Don’t forget the far more serious January 8 insurrection: By her own admission, Representative Nancy Pelosi attempted to undermine the constitutional power of the commander-in-chief by calling the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and ‘instructing’ him to disregard any orders from the president regarding the use of nuclear weapons, claiming without evidence that President Trump was insane. ‘We must make sure such paranoid actions never again threaten our [Republic],’ right?” —Minnesota

Re: “Elon Musk Zaps the Opposition”

“When it comes to leftists like Senator Warren, they’re always angry because many people in the real world out-achieve them. And these leftists resent it. This rubs the fur on their fairytale world the wrong way, because we’re indeed not all equal, and thus equal outcomes can’t be expected. Leftists are leftists because of their warped egos. They’re inherently jealous of whatever they have, and inherently envious of whatever others have and/or can produce. So they enrich themselves via government control, while they impede and condemn achievers via biased taxation policy and character assassination. Musk is finally learning this as they spit in his face.” —Illinois

Re: “Ukraine — Biden’s Dangerous Record of Appeasement”

“After the fall of the Soviet Union, a treaty was signed between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States, by which Ukraine surrendered a substantial number of nuclear missiles in return for guaranteed respect for their territorial sovereignty. The Russian invasion and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 was therefore an act against not just Ukraine but America as well. Sometimes we have a stake in preventing countries from assaulting their weaker neighbors, as with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. But our national interest is always at stake when our treaties are violated, and a failure to react only emboldens bullies. Obama’s 2014 decision to let Putin violate our treaty with impunity is now yielding its predictable consequences.” —Georgia

“What inference can we conclude from the fact Putin avoided such provocations during Trump’s tenure, but is resuming them under Biden? The most plausible and only rational inference is Putin respected Trump and cautiously withheld the provocations. But the resumption of these provocations implies Putin sees Biden to be nothing more than an empty-headed, emasculated, impotent, noisy shadow of a mist dispersing under the sunlight of reality.” —Missouri

“Instead of ‘Obama blankets,’ send them all the Senate and House Democrats as political and economic advisors. Within three weeks, the Russian economy will be so broke it will not be able to afford an invasion, the trucks and tanks will be out of fuel, and the government will be so messed up it won’t be able to find Ukraine.” —North Carolina

Re: “Religious Liberty, Transgender Activists, and Women’s Voices”

“The right to freedom of religion is specifically enumerated in the Constitution. No such enumeration exists for gender reassignment surgery. A so-called gender dysphoric person hasn’t any more right to gender reassignment surgery than a person with a cleft palate has a right to reconstructive surgery. A ‘right’ isn’t a right if someone is forced to provide it. If gender dysphoric people are being discriminated against, then who is the initial guilty party if such people are born with the dysphoria? Beyond any rare gender dysphoria at birth, it’s known that most gender dysphoric people are mentally ill or are children struggling with adolescence or are child victims of psychological manipulation by adults … in our public schools.” —Illinois