...A place free of gun violence

GK Chesterton said, “It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.”

Close your eyes.

Imagine 26 shoes of various sizes, mostly very small, lined up in the hallways outside your office door. They are drenched in blood and dotted with bits of skin, bone, and hair. Now imagine that line of shoes multiplying and filling every stairwell in the Capitol building. Imagine empty shoes lining the road that leads to your home.

Imagine 7,000 pairs of empty children’s shoes on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol, which grief-stricken gun control citizens actually did in yet another effort to wake us to this horror.

Imagine the shouts of joy and laughter that used to emanate from those shoes that have been silenced by a gun that could, should, have been locked up. Imagine the faces of the absent shoe owners morphing into the faces of your family and friends. Imagine the pain, grief, hatred, rage, and sorrow you carry in your empty heart – for their absence, or impairment, and when you find out the murder or injury could have been prevented by sensible gun reform.

To The Editor:

So, the left thinks we should get rid of the Electoral College and that we live in a democracy. Well, here is something that teachers seem to have omitted from their lesson plans that will make leftists stomachs churn. We actually live in a republic, where individual rights matter and you are free to pursue the things in life that make you happy. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what is for supper. It is mob rule where 51% of the population tells the other 49% how to live their lives. That is not America (yet).

If the left is successful in canceling the Electoral College we will have to live under their tyranny from that point forward. Once it is gone, a few large cities will control our federal elections from that point on. Then, you will be forced to call people by their foolish made up pronouns or face onerous fines like the one in New York City. You will be forced to allow parents to mutilate their children no matter how young. It will be done in the name of trans because of the parents’ mental illness that will not allow them to see the harm they are causing.

From there, things will get worse because the left will persecute anyone that does not agree with them as has been witnessed already with the J6 political prisoners and the parents that have been persecuted for complaining at school board meetings about what was being taught to their children. They received a visit from the FBI for exercising their freedom of speech. It will get even worse if the left in America follows the E.U.’s example where they are threatening to force their citizens to take refugees into their homes if there is an emergency. You know how the government is with inventing emergencies (three weeks to flatten the curve sound familiar). Then, if they gain total control their hatred for anyone that does not spew the leftist mantra will surely come out. It happened in Cambodia when Pol Pot killed 2 million people with an education because they were the most likely to disagree with his leftist/Communist government. It happened to 38 million Russians because they wouldn’t play nice with the leftist/Communists. It happened in China to the tune of 70 million dead and is still happening there. The CCP is persecuting Christians, Muslims, and the Falun Gong for their beliefs and they are being rounded up and sent to concentration

In the end, leftists will not be creating the Utopia they claim but something more akin to hell on earth where you will have to obey an authoritarian governments every whim or pay the price.

Roger Hale Naples

Now, imagine yourself in a pair of those shoes. Are you ready to die from a gun that was not locked up, was stolen, or is being used in a moment of rage? Are you ready to die from a ghost gun assembled under the radar of current gun laws? Are you ready to die because we refuse to legislate basic gun reform for all gunowners? Are you ready to stop this public health crisis?

How long will we debate this issue? How many more men, women, and children must die before we do more than offer “thoughts and prayers?” How many more people will suffer mental health issues from close contact with the victims, forced lock down drills in schools, or horrific crime scene images that can’t be unseen.

The numbers on the bills of gun reform will change

To The Editor: I must admit that I never thought I would ever agree with the so called “reverend.” However, in his “Independent Thought” column last week, he made some good points with his contention that America lives in a Milli Vanilli world where “everything is phony.” He recalls that 80s “musicians” Milli Vanilli were exposed as phonies