Posted February 9, 2018 11:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Letters to the editor are a mainstay of the newspaper business. Back before the internet, it was about the only way of sharing your opinion with the masses. Even today, it’s still a vital tool for political debate, especially on local issues.

Unfortunately, they’re only useful if they’re intelligently written and contain useful information.

A recent letter to the Northwest Florida Daily News doesn’t really do either, and instead shows the extent of the anti-gun argument.

The conversation around the tragedy in Kentucky is much quieter this time than even the last school shooting, which seems to be the growing trend with every new mass shooting. Nationwide numbness and complacency to these horrific events is setting in.

Now, let’s bear in mind that mass shooting outrage operates on a sliding scale. The outrage for a Columbine or Virginia Tech will always be greater than for what happened in Kentucky where two people were killed, 17 injured.

It has nothing to do with numbness so much as the fact that the magnitude of the act is a reflection of the loss of life. While those who’ve lost loved ones will always think about that shooting, the rest of the nation doesn’t have that …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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