Shooting range needed
Shooting range needed
Mahalo and thank you for your letter to the editor, Mr. Hugo von Platen Luder, for your thoughts and opinion on the first day of the new year.
I also agree wholeheartedly, we need a shooting range in West Hawaii. I have been a resident of Kailua-Kona for 25 years now, and have missed the opportunity by living here to stay familiar with the guns that I own.
Gun ownership carries a lot of responsibility. Safety. Safety. Safety. Being a retired police officer, I miss not being able to stay familiar with the guns I do own.
A shooting range could benefit so many, and be a major factor in safe gun ownership.
Bob Myers
Kailua-Kona
Right-wing diatribe far from right on
I was greatly amused by Ms. Palma Glennie’s tirade titled “Trump right-wing hate.” As she condemns right-wing hate, she proceeds then to spew language filled with hate that no true conservative would ever use to condemn political opponents.
She starts off with defense contractors. The first is Blackwater, now named since 2011, Academi. The present co-chair of the Governance Committee of Academi, Jack Quinn, is the former White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton. The second target is General Electric.
The current CEO of GE is Jeffrey Immelt probably the closest industrialist advisor to President Obama. Next, Ms. Palma-Glennie takes on the conservative media epitomized by Fox News. She writes that Americans are so “hyper-afraid” that they need “multiple AK-47s in their closet to be safe.” She must be unaware that a Pew Research Center found in a survey in December 1993 45 percent of Americans had a gun in their household and in January of 2013 only 33 percent had a gun in their household. Fox News must be disappointed that their “bellicose infotainment 24/7 that incites fear” is failing miserably.
Ms. Palma-Glennie then directly attacks conservatives by writing “many (conservatives) aren’t afraid of their guns accidentally killing their children” or making it easier for a loved one to take their own life.” Does Ms. Palma-Glennie really believe those statements? How hateful can one get in criticizing conservatives?
Ms. P-G (I’m tired of writing her full surname) then goes on to encourage all readers to support every program, no matter how costly, that liberals have ever thought of.
A notable exception is for supporting the military establishment. Ms. P-G makes no mention of the many military lives that have been lost to protect her right to pen such balderdash.
I respect Ms. P-D’s right to submit such flummery. I also recognize my rights, under the First Amendment, to name it what it is, poppycock!
Bruce A. Wilson
Kailua-Kona