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Letters to the Editor

Published
January 7, 2013

Obama sets up US for more debt than ever

President Barack Obama can pat himself on the back; he has extended the G.W. Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans.
Published
January 7, 2013

Reisert column merely assails president’s speech

Professor Joseph Reisert begins his column about gun ownership by actually agreeing that President Barack Obama is right on at least one point.
Published
January 7, 2013

More guns no solution to the problem of violence

Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Association, is half-right. If every school in America had armed guards, it would be somewhat more difficult to launch the kind of massacre visited on Newtown, Conn.
Published
January 7, 2013

To prevent shootings gun laws need to be loosened

Ask yourself: If you were mentally unstable and wanted to cause harm, would you take your arsenal and shoot up a police convention or a school? Without a doubt, you would pick a school, because if you did so at the convention your efforts would be thwarted by multiple guns firing back at you.
Published
January 6, 2013

Gun culture promotes using them against other humans

The shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut was a terrible tragedy. But the National Rifle Association's proposal of having armed guards in every school in the country makes such horrible events even more likely, not less.

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Published
January 6, 2013

Assault rifles are weapons of mass destruction

It's time for a new phrase to enter the conversation on gun control: personal weapons of mass destruction.
Published
January 5, 2013

From federal republicto an oligarchy

Our form of government has changed from a federal republic to an oligarchy. An oligarchy is a form of government in which control is exercised by a group of individuals whose authority is based upon wealth or power.
Published
January 5, 2013

Thanks for solving unwanted gun problem

Congratulations to Duane Wheeler of the Dairy Queen for identifying the problem and to Gary Hammond of Hammond Tractor for providing a solution to the question of how to safely dispose of unwanted guns. And congratulations to the men and women of Waterville Rotary Club for providing a venue where such a question could be brought to light.
Published
January 5, 2013

Thanks for the boost to my car and my day

My battery went dead in Waterville recently, and naturally, I didn't have my jumper cables with me. A couple I have never seen before stopped, but they couldn't help (no jumper cables) so they drove off.
Published
January 5, 2013

Society a living, breathing, thinking organism

Mankind is addicted to delusions; we cherish and defend them to the death.