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This is normal: Be forewarned. This spring has been below normal in temperature and above normal in moisture. Remember that when our return to the normal 90s of the “dog days of summer” occurs. It’s not due to “climate change,” as you’ll be told. It’s a return to normalcy.
We need guns, not gun laws: Arm every citizen. Teach children how to fight back. Teach gun safety in schools. Most of all — enforce our laws! Stop taking away our rights! You want the right to kill your baby with abortion yet you want to stop guns. I want the right to decide whether or not I want to take a vaccine and to go where I want to go and when. We don’t need more laws. We need more enforcement and more rights as well as more accountability.
Assault rifles are for wars: A recent opinion page showing an 11-year-old boy smiling at a recent NRA convention holding an assault rifle was disheartening after what has recently happened in our America. Hopefully his parents will encourage him to join our military service, where he will be taught the use of an assault rifle: to protect our country in war. Updated gun reform bills will never eliminate all tragedies, but it is a start.
Sign o’ the apocalypse: We have a major dilemma today. Women want to be men and men want to be women. Help, the world’s coming to an end.
Here’s a thought: A simple way to increase school security is to take all of the security details away from every politician and put them in the schools. When the politicians are facing the same threats that we face it won’t take too long for things to change.
It could be worse: Americans should count their blessings. We could be living in Ukraine or working as a rag picker in India making less than $3 a day collecting people’s garbage.
Mike, Tinley Park
The price of gasoline in Germany is about 48% taxes and the price in Italy is about 55% tax. This equates to being cheaper than U.S. prices as our taxes, while high in our views, are much less. Prices in those countries have always been high due to the same liberal, socialist leaning, anti-fossil fuel crusade of policies that are now in place in this country.