Opinions: Letters to the editor

 published on Thursday, April 17, 2008

Blown out of proportion

(In response to Monday's column by Brandon Menc titled "Open our borders or our wallets?")

I find Brandon Menc's entire article, though well written, to be inflammatory and specious. I'm sure that if Menc had his way, we all would be eating dirt for breakfast and grass for dinner like the North Koreans, who do not benefit from a minimum wage, social security or any other laws.

I find it ridiculous that Menc seems to be implying that we begin nuclear testing in response to illegal immigration. Perhaps we could do this testing along the Rio Grande.

Does Menc have any shred of humanity left in him?

Aaron Foster
Local Reader

Reloaded

(In response to Wednesday's editorial titled "Lest we forget")

Reading yesterday's editorial about the preparedness of ASU for a Virginia Tech style disaster, I was blown away about the statement that pre-emptive tactics are necessary. You have done your best over the last few months to destroy any chances of the ONLY pre-emptive tactic that might truly work. No measure of prevention that takes place outside of the room that a shooting happens in can ever prevent it.

What good does it do to give police "assault" rifles when they have never once shown up while a shooting was taking place? What good does doubling or even tripling the police force do when it could happen in any one of hundreds of rooms across campus? The ONLY measure that could ever hope to stop an attack in progress is the presence of legally armed law-abiding citizens in the place where a shooting is taking place. The gun that should be feared is the one in the hands of a criminal. The slightest perceived infringement on the First Amendment on campus is met with outrage and anger, yet the total abolition of Second Amendment rights is applauded.

While you are remembering the victims of Virginia Tech, don't forget to remember the victims near the beginning of the rampage who were of legal age and had ample opportunity to stop it had they not been denied their right to defend themselves by their school.

Michael Chacon
Undergraduate