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Re: Regarding Biden’s ‘Gun Ban’ Agenda, First Let’s Ban Alcohol!

Alexander’s suggestion that Democrats ban alcohol because its abusers kill five times the number of people killed by firearm abusers is brilliant. Leftists would be crying in the streets if subjected to a background check every time they buy a bottle of Chardonnay or a six pack of Bud Light. —California

Yes, despite the wall-to-wall media coverage of rare mass murders, making it seem like they happen all the time, do you ever notice that when they do happen, it is almost universally in a “gun-free zone”? Hmmm… —New York

Alexander gets to the crux of the Democrat/leftist agenda: Gun confiscation. They care not one bit about crime for the reasons mentioned and many more. Current policies encourage crime, which begets mayhem across the country. Chaos is good for their objective — to undermine Liberty. The Second Amendment was created to protect us against a tyrannical government. It is, as Alexander has written, the First Civil Right that protects all others. —Tennessee

Re: ‘You Can’t Talk About the Russians That Way’

First of all, I love the cartoon! Second, the explanation is simple: You say/depict the truth and they refuse to acknowledge it because they believe truth is subjective (you know, like science or evidence in a trial). Free speech is only for their side since what they say has been approved by their socialist overlords, and everyone memorizes the same script, so obviously it’s right! Nobody’s little brain is overtaxed by thinking, logic, or questioning, leaving them oodles of time to search you out and tell you that you’re wrong. There is no “why.” You might as well argue with a computer — since in effect you are. Just take their word for it and move along. —Pennsylvania

Re: New York’s Gas Pains

I have been trying to understand the immediacy of climate change for a while now. I acknowledge that a lot of things were done without realizing the forever effects of laziness and stupidity. I know that a lot of things have been done to improve our environment over the last 40 years. But why can’t we explore ways to continue reliable sources of energy while improving the impact of those sources instead of stopping the sources? I know that some corporate greed exists, but we have laws in effect to collect fines and lawyers who love to sue for anything. Increasing the demand on our electrical grid and then removing reliable energy resources seems kind of like cutting off your nose to spite your face. —Wisconsin

Re: Tuesday: Below the Fold

“Biden has been demanding a bill that raises the debt ceiling without any spending conditions or restraints attached.” And media outlets are already priming the pump for the spin, saying that if no deal is reached, a default by the United States could throw us into a recession. Regardless of how this plays out, we will be in a recession later this year, but even the Democrats are leery of trying to “redefine” their way around one again. So Biden will continue to obstinately refuse any restrictions on future spending and let the deadline pass. When the already inevitable recession comes to pass, he and the media will cry, Just look what those mean Republicans did to our economy! Never let a crisis go to waste… —Georgia

Only in government speak is a reduction in growth of spending considered a “cut.” In the real world, if one budgeted X dollars for a project in the near future and circumstances “turned south,” the project would be delayed or canceled, not merely downsized to fit available funds. Ah well — spend, spend, spend is the only thing government seems to know how to do well (and it has proven very good at it over the past 40 years or so, no matter who is supposed to be in control). —Washington

Re: Getting Married Young

I wish them the happiness me and my wife have had for almost 39 years. I was in the Navy on ship getting repairs at the shipyard in Bremerton, WA. We met at a Friday the 13th party at a bar in 1983. Just over nine weeks later, we were getting married. We pushed this date up from October when the Navy said it would pay for the move to our new home port in San Diego if we were married by July 1. Now, almost 39 years later, we live near my home town, have two grown sons, and are waiting on grandchildren, which today means probably never, so we have our latest puppy that gets as loved and spoiled as our grandkids will be if we ever have any. —Illinois

Heck, I was 18 and my husband was 25. We were married on Valentine’s Day in 1978. We had seven children, and here it is, 2023, and we now have 20 grandchildren. Young people can get married and stay married through ups and downs if they work on their marriages. They just need to put God first, then their families, then work. With God, marriage can survive through it all! —Texas

Re: Anti-Mother’s Day Corporate Pandering

Once again, the dragon of socialist/leftist/communist tyranny attempts to stick its nose (just a little, they promise!) into yet another “tradition” in an attempt to co-opt and destroy it. These folks cannot create anything (except to sow chaos); they can only continue to destroy anything of which they do not approve, not unlike a spoiled, petulant child gleefully kicking down the sand castles or block houses of other children’s creation. “Tear it down!” they incoherently scream, never giving a nanosecond of thought as to what might follow. This is simply a slick attempt to appeal to (what else!?) the feelings/emotions of possibly hurting people. Stay tuned for what’s next on their agenda. —Virginia

Re: Reparations to Become Entitlements in California?

I’d like to know: Just who living today has owned a slave? Okay, so Kamala Harris’s family owned slaves. So did mine, way back when, but they were released from slavery and fought on both the Yankee and the Confederate sides of the Civil War, completely on their own, plus they owned their own land when they got back from the war. My family didn’t have any money that came down to their children; they broke the farm up, and all the people on it were given land to own, which included the previous slaves. All were then land owners. —Texas