Letter: Guns, free speech go hand in hand
Wednesday, Sept. 22, 1999 | 9:51 a.m.
In modern times people are no longer responsible beings. They don't care how their neighbor is doing, nor do they band together to offer support of another's plight. Self-service, selfishness, self-serving motives are those which drive people in this age; and likely also are the concepts of sales, marketing, and win-at-all-costs, a root evil of people's inability to control their pride and temper. When push comes to shove, get a gun and use it to equalize the torment, humiliation, or to get revenge for hurt feelings.
Guns and the right to voice an opinion, no matter how contrary to prevailing thought, is what sets the United States apart from its peers, and certainly is a principal cause for having more convicts than jails to house them. Control one, and the powers control the other. Deny one of these rights, and the U.S. citizen loses sovereignty. Let things go, and rivers of blood, festering hate, will fill our sewers and become our legacy.
Responsible citizens will champion the cause of liberty; irresponsible ones will ruin it.
AARON LESTER
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