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Editor, Index-Tribune:
Leave it to the NRA to provide a partial solution to two vexing problems confronting our mourning poleis. To wit: how to increase jobs by getting their unemployed members off the streets and how to increase non-tax revenue.
First by providing at least one armed guard for every school in the country, and by extension, every house of worship and restaurant, the old 1928 Republican prosperity saw, “A chicken in every pot,” now can add “and a gun in every school, to boot,” to inspire a sense of eternal security.
Second, to support these job-creating endeavors, Wayne LaPierre and his ballistophilic myrmidons should buy the latest in assault rifle technology and pay a voluntary fee (not a tax) on all the bullets required for their weekly target practice shooting bad-guy straw-men.
Finally, the only missing component to this dystopian bliss of making our schools Orwellian safe is to fill the jails and prisons with the mentally ill and to elect Big Brother as the House Speaker for life.
Michael F. Heiman
Sonoma
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If I am not mistaken, the dystopian society of Orwell's 1984 was disarmed. Only the government had guns.
Don't know what to say about this one other than this.
JIBBERISH
To PHINEAS WORTHINGTON: I believe the adjective "Orwellian" connotes a process destructive to the welfare of a free and open society not specifically about who owns the guns.
To WAYNE HARDY: I can only agree that what you said may be "jibberish", but since that word has no meaning, perhaps gibberish would be a better word to describe your candid statement.
I think if it were up to me I would have armed plain cloths security in ever school building not just one per school after all they are our children,right, look, you have armed security at banks, airports, patroling in cars, all over Washington DC, news papers, etc, so whats the big deal, there is no law in the world that can stop these kinds of random acts of violence by the insane, you could lock up or destroy all the Mil. style weapons in the world and someone would figure another better way, and for you uninformed, they are not Hi cap. "clips" they are Hi Cap. Magazines so please get it right.....Hope I got all my spelling correct.