Letter: Shame on us

"The Newtown shooter used guns belonging to his mother"

Glad you brought that up. She found cartoons he had drawn showing him shooting up crowds of people and a collection of mass shooting pictures and news clippings. She was alarmed but did not act on her fears.

Criminal negligence...pure, plain and simple. I have no qualms stating directly to her surviving family that she deserved to get shot in the face for such despicable omissions of common sense and responsibility.

April 24, 2013 at 12:52 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Vigil held to promote gun control

If you are former PD, here is no way you can say 'get rid of semi-automatics' and not be aware of the implications...no way at all.

The overwhelming majority of firearms sold today are semi-auto. I don't care what your grandfather had. Living in the past like that suggests a poor grasp on reality. My grandfather actually had a horse-drawn wagon when he was young. Ironically, he bought me a semi-automatic 22 cal. rifle for my 12th birthday, nearly 4 decades ago.

Are you thinking you can just confiscate all the pre-existing semi-autos out there or just outlaw them so only outlaws will have them?

Seriously, what are you thinking?

April 15, 2013 at 2 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Opinion: Gun laws won’t conquer evil

Recently divulged additional information about the Lanza family and the shooting.
1. The kid had been bullied at the school and the school was apparently selected based on motives of revenge.
2. The mother found drawings of him shooting people and didn't know how to respond, so she did nothing at all.

Both situations allow for ample opportunities to learn from and decrease the likelihood of similar events in the future.

April 11, 2013 at 7:02 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Opinion: Gun laws won’t conquer evil

"I wish everyday...I'd bust out my gun and become an instant American Hero like Steven Segal or Charles Bronson. "

What? Somehow I think you may be a sockpuppet intent on misrepresenting legitimate CCWs as trigger-happy lunatics living in a fantasy world.

If you are serious, you are borderline dangerous, at the very least. I suggest you seek therapy before your latent hostilities injure or kill innocent people.

April 11, 2013 at 6:53 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Lawrence man arrested on suspicion of stealing phone from pedestrian

If you look closely at the statistics of auto vs. pedestrian accidents, it often is the pedestrian's fault. In most cities the pedestrians are heavily intoxicated about 50% of the time.

April 5, 2013 at 8:16 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Topeka man injured in accidental shooting at Perry Lake

The officer was called to the ER at 6 AM. The staff would have stabilized the patient before calling the officer and the patient would have had to be transported to the ER even before that. The event probably happened closer to 4 AM. Also, the article clearly says he had been drinking.

This was criminal negligence and he is lucky he didn't kill one of his buddies. I would prosecute him for at least a misdemeanor.

April 5, 2013 at 8:04 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Topeka man injured in accidental shooting at Perry Lake

What is in season right now that you would use a pistol for?

April 5, 2013 at 7:58 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Letter: Guns don’t save

"are you really saying there have been attempts to assassinate our president that we haven't heard about"

No. He's saying that those 'attempts' were never attempted to begin with.

March 23, 2013 at 10:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Letter: Guns don’t save

LOL at David Conrad and his short little list of tangential non sequiturs.

Seriously, is that how the gun-control crowd thinks?

March 23, 2013 at 9:42 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Softball batting cages disabled by theft of copper wire

Oops. It seems I failed to write the post in the manner you chose to read it. My sincerest apologies to you...LOL

March 19, 2013 at 1:13 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )