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A new edition of Downtown newsmagazine, and right on queue the publisher spews more left wing, anti-gun propaganda blaming the NRA for the Florida high school mass shooting (From The Publisher/April). It's the NRA's fault that a mentally deranged kid acquired a gun illegally and murdered high school students in Florida. It's the NRA's support for the Constitution that caused the horrendous event at that Florida high school. You don't seem to understand that if a criminal wants to get a gun illegally, he can easily do so. As one of five million plus NRA members I can't tell you how sick and tired I am of you anti-gun liberals blaming every gun related tragedy on the NRA. Your continued attacks on the NRA and President Trump only encourages us to support the NRA with more dollars and increased membership. So please, direct your energies towards a more productive remedy like identifying potential unstable individuals and getting them the mental health they need, protecting the schools with armed guards and security trained teachers, monitoring social media for "red flags" and taking appropriate action, encouraging social media providers to be active in identifying potential shooters, securing our borders to reduce the illegal criminals entering, changing immigration laws to immediately return illegals entering the country to their native country, eliminating the bogus amnesty excuse used to enter and stay in America, eliminating Obama's "catch and release" insanity, building the wall, etc. Doug Osterrout Oakland Township (Publisher’s response: You may want to reread my column. At no point was the NRA blamed for any shooting. Hard to see through an ideologue’s haze, but the column simply noted that the NRA, with it’s money and boots on the ground, would be a tough foe for anyone pushing for gun control reform.)
Red Tide at polls
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"Blue wave?" Surely you jest (From The Publisher/May). No, this time there will be a "Red Tide.” The reasons are these: Hillary Clinton, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Brown, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Debbie Wasserman Schulz, Chuck Schumer, all of whom are either socialist, senile, or dislike the U.S. Constitution and fail to understand basic economic and moral principles. Plus, lower taxes, better judges, more border security, the lowest Black DOWNTOWN
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and Hispanic jobless rate in history, enhanced and better supported military, and the brilliant foreign policy leadership of Donald J. Trump. Republicans I predict will keep and perhaps gain in the House, and for sure better own the Senate. No one believes your liberal banter here. Lawrence R. Mead, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy Rochester Hills
Primary Voter Guide I can hardly wait for the Voter Guide to arrive. Thank you for all the work that you and your staff are doing to produce it. In this tumultuous and crowded year, it will be a big help. Thank goodness Oakland County is continuing to trend Democratic. Now, if we could only get rid of Brooks Patterson. Pauline Mengebier Bloomfield Hills
Organized crime piece Not sure if Lisa Brody received much feedback on this, but I must say, this was a great article on Detroit Organized Crime (May/Downtown). Several of us at the U.S. Attorney’s Office thoroughly enjoyed it, including some of us who were actually around during some of the noted investigations. For myself, having interviewed a few mob guys over the years (decades actually), I was very impressed with your early LCN (La Cosa Nostra) history. Dead on. Keep up the great work. Eric M. Straus Assistant United States Attorney Organized Crime Coordinator Violent and Organized Crime Unit U.S. Department of Justice Eastern District of Michigan 07.18