Blame won’t fix it
This is in response to Noelie Rodriguez’s letter (Your Views, Tribune-Herald, March 20).
First off, since the Columbine shooting April 20, 1999, we have lost 400 keiki to school shootings. Not 7,000 in the past five years.
Second, when you buy a gun, you have to have a background check. In Hawaii, you also have to register the gun.
Third, assault rifles have been illegal since 1934. What you are calling assault rifles are semi-automatic. Semi-automatic guns are legal.
Automatic weapons have been around since 1892. Semi-automatics have been around since 1885.
What we need to ask ourselves is: What has changed in our society that has brought this about over the past 19 years?
President Barack Obama had a study done that showed 200,000 people use a gun to protect themselves and their families each year.
Blaming corporations, the NRA and people who have a different view than you does nothing to solve the problem. The more you point your finger, the more people think their Second Amendment rights are threatened.
Then more people go out and buy guns and join the NRA.
David Prager
Keaau
‘Identity politics’
The March 17 issue of the Tribune-Herald provided an informative and heart-warming article by Michael Brestovansky about a young man’s quest to become the youngest person to visit all National Park Service sites. Why was it then necessary to focus on the subject’s sexual proclivities (photo, narrative)?
Identity politics is destroying our country. Print media and “the news,” in particular, are in trouble. Why the rush to extirpation?
There is simply no need to include this stuff in an otherwise interesting story.
Richard Hoeflinger
Keaau
Correct David, with a semi-automatic weapon you only need to cock it once, but you still need to pull the trigger each shot. Most all handguns are semi-automatic. They are not machine guns that you just hold down the trigger and it sprays bullets everywhere.
The anti-gun folks know that most people do not understand guns and use that lack of knowledge to just spread falsehoods, along with as you noted false statistics.
while Real Americans know that Conservatives harm every country they infest.
Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, America…infested with conservatives who kill normal people, while pretending to be devout or patriotic.
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conservatives rules for govt. = conservatives bend over and take it from govt.
govt. rules for us = we work for anyone but you, but bend over and take it like a conservative.
DP, Well let’s see. A man set another man on fire last week and didn’t use a gun. Another man last week slashed a mans throat with a knife and didn’t use a gun. And just yesterday a man that was sending bombs through the mail and leaving them around different areas to kill people didn’t use a gun. It’s not the GUN. It’s the HUMAN with a deranged mind that is the real problem.
So your point is that one man can only kill one person when they dont have a gun?
While the Orlando Certified Armed Security Guard was able to kill 49 people in minutes, while wounding about 60 others?
Thats your point?
Wow, what are you doing in a Christian State?
Shouldn’t you be in a Red State sucking up to Putin?
The guy in Europe used a truck to run over people in the streets killing many. Again its back to the DERANGED HUMAN that is the real problem in all of this. Just go ask a suicide bomber with a bomb vest on. Give him your reasoning statement.
sure cupcake sure. guns dont kill people bullets do.
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You might want to proofread your internet cut and paste memes.
This one supports the fact that an AR15 is not justifiable for any reason.
I guess you should learn to read what it is you cut and paste, being the cut and paste illiterate head up your ass shit for brains idiot you so clearly are proud of being.
Because you are so damn stupid i also wanted you to know I typed this real slow because I know you can’t read fast!
omg, his mommy dropped him on his head again, lmfao.
metalmoron,
too dumb to realize that David Prager is actually supporting the death of his fellow americans, as a Trump/Putin Voter.
I’m just saying there’s a lot of things that can kill people besides guns. So don’t change my story. corporate moron.
Homos are like that.
David Prager,
How long have you worked for the NRA?
Just 400 Keiki’s killed by guns? Well, thats acceptable right?
You may not believe in Hell, but Hell is waiting for people like you.
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oh to see the look on the average conservatives face, the Rictus of horror…as they descend to their eternity in hell.
Children should be given an empathy test while very young to determine if they are Christians or Conservatives.
lol.. “Children need an empathy test while very young to determine if they are Christians or Conservatives?”
Children usually become a byproduct of their surroundings, they need to be raised with love, kindness, ethics and morals. When they are very young, they only know what they’re taught by whoever is raising them up.
being raised with love, kindness, ethics and morals helps. but if a person has no empathy, they will never show these traits. a person is not taught empathy, you either have it or you do not. and there are varying degree’s of empathy. you could put it on a scale of 1-100, with 1 being a sociopath, and 100 being someone like Jesus.
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Being a mother and grandmother I can tell you that as a parent you will be able to tell if your child is compassionate, kind and caring from an early age or not. I was also a child care provider and it’s obvious when something’s not right.
wishful thinking, because maybe half of the kids so far that went to school with guns and killed other kids, and everyone was surprised. Even the guy in Orlando, who was an armed and certified security guard, everyone surprised, kills 49 people.
Sociopaths are very adept at fooling those around them because they tend to have a higher than average IQ.
Just look at every politician in america……
NRA, they’re the none sense organization. 2nd amendment right? That is for the military to handle. Since when domestic becomes a foreign invasion problem? Right to bear arms. Selling guns should be illegal. Just the military would be allowed is more desirable for civilians and the well being of the citizens. And police officers who use them. No one else should be allowed to buy the weapons.
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Why would police need any firearms?
Yes Richard. Bury your head in the sand once more.
Do you think any more or any less of this young man based on his sexual preferences?
How does it effect you in any way?
YAHWEH’S MINISTRY, LINCOLN PARK, HILO, HAWAII
There are already enough gun control laws on the books, enforce them and gun violence will decrease.
It’s the human being with death and evil in their heart which is the problem with gun violence just like all the other methods/tools used to murder innocent people.
The 2nd Amendment is in the Bill of Rights, because it’s a Right, not a privilege to own firearms; that’s why its called the Bill of “Rights”!
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YAHWEH’S MINISTRY, LINCOLN PARK, HILO, HAWAII
There are already enough gun control laws on the books, enforce them and gun violence will decrease.
It’s the human being with death and evil in their heart which is the problem with gun violence just like all the other methods/tools used to murder innocent people.
The 2nd Amendment is in the Bill of Rights, because it’s a Right, not a privilege to own firearms; that’s why its called the Bill of “Rights”!
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So is the right of a woman to have an abortion.
“It’s the human being with death and evil in their heart which is the problem”……..this is whats called, “Freud·i·an slip”……you know it, everyone around you knows it, God knows it…while Satan waits patiently for you….but you are not called yet, for Satan has work for you to do on earth.
Mr Hoeflinger,
Did not read the article but I can surmise what you are talking about. The subject was homosexual and the article played that up. You are right, has nothing to do with his activities visiting places.
It does further the left’s efforts to “normalize” those with SSAD.
stop fantasizing about hot men and just go hook up with one…..again…..