The truth is …
To bring real, honest change to intelligent gun ownership and use of guns this nation must create a crises. Only then will this nation reduce the horror of the daily killings of our citizens and children we are told about happening each and every day.
To do this we MUST show photos of the horrible damage done to the human body when shot with high powered ammo, show photos of kids and teens of both genders laying in pools of blood, disfigured by the damage a bullet or many bullets do when striking flesh. This will thoroughly revolt most viewers who never saw this level of gore before.
Until the news media stands up to the reality of showing this on their front pages and TV news programs, actions to decrease the horror will continue to be just more hot air and the killing and maiming will just continue to go on. We need to stop this violence now and use this tool to gain support to do so. We need to take off the kid gloves and show in detail the damage that only the affected families usually have to bear in their hearts and souls when laying their family members to rest.
Schools, churches, and everyday working folks must be exposed to the results and magnitude that high powered weapons leave at the scenes of their use. Pictures are worth a thousand words and it has come time to show that fact. I know it’s disgusting, but apparently very necessary.
Secondly and of equal importance to this nation’s future in dealing with the everyday issues of bigotry that downgrades all of our nation’s citizens in our daily interactions with our fellowmen is the absolute importance of having a national, fact-based, text book system that is used in all public schools across our nation. The current system offers non-fact based views of our past history and scientific achievements, depending on which state a student is educated in. It is the only way that our future citizens can be taught the truth of all the great accomplishments and benefits that this nation’s combined makeup of cultures and races has been used to make our Nation as great as it is.
Lies and bigoted views taught in our public school systems have fueled unwarranted hatred within our nation for decades and to this day are allowed to continue doing so. We are better than this when we beat our chests as to the importance of leaving a better world for our children that follow us. We need to quit lying to ourselves and truly stand up to those long standing lies that are lessoning the true chance of leaving our children a better world to improve on.
Jim Hall, Clearlake Oaks
Real friends
My wife’s sister retired and moved into our complex with us a year ago. Not only was she a sister, she was my wife’s best friend. We lost her on the 25th of October (after a 10 day hospital stay after surgery) and it was not a pretty moment. I called our best friends in Australia and told them, and the wife called back to speak to Marilyn. It was the first time in a week that I heard my wife laugh. What a godsend to have friends like that. Thank you Jack and Louise Leonard and to the rest of our true friends that have given us so much.
Mac McKay, Lakeport
Valley Fire help
We would like to extend our thanks for help we received during the recent Valley Fire to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office who after three tries managed to move a fallen power pole and get us out; to Ron and Eileen Talbott of Witter Springs who put us up, fed us and in general made us feel better about not being able to get back to our home; to CalFire (I think from San Luis Obispo under the leadership of Dennis) who set backfires to protect our home; to Dave and Lynn Jordan who came in and texted pictures to our daughter to let her know our home was still standing; to Jim and Colleen Comstock who came in and checked our house and pet; to Lester Sanderson and Roger True who came from Napa and St. Helena to set up our generator; to PG&E crews who worked unbelievably hard to reset the power poles which had been burned and fallen over (12 total) and got us power back.
Thank you to all of CalFire, PG&E and AT&T who all went above and beyond.
Don and Joan Bunce, Middletown
A new concept
A person learns the meaning and pronunciation of a new word, making himself master of a new concept, able to include an important new concept in his thinking. Without this new word, this person could not use this new concept in his thinking. Words may not be thought, but they are the carriers of thought. Without the word the thought it carries cannot be used, for the thought is inseparable from the word.
Dean Sparks, Lucerne
