Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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To the Editor:

What difference does it really make to the quality of life in America whether a mass shooting is carried out by a white supremacist, a mentally disturbed individual, a domestic ideologue or a foreign terrorist? For those innocents killed and those who survive, the effect is the same. They are terrorized while going about their everyday lives. There is only one common denominator, and it is guns, especially automatic weapons. Get them off the streets.

HOPE BROCK WINTHROP

New York

Note from KBJ: Unless you physically destroy every firearm in the country, and I do mean every firearm, banning firearms will have only one effect: making everyone (including you, Hope) vulnerable to criminals and terrorists. Have you had a Critical Thinking course? If not, you might want to take one.

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The Original Soundtrack (1975). Seriously, how is this not the most beautiful song ever written? It gives me chills even 40 years later.

This afternoon, at a Shell station in Arlington, Texas, I paid $1.999 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline. With my Kroger card, it came to $1.899. What're y'all payin' in your neck o' the woods?

To the Editor:

As one who has always strived to be a gentleman, I am saddened but not surprised by “Foul-Mouthed and Proud of It on the ’16 Trail” (front page, Nov. 28), which notes the tendency of this year’s presidential candidates to use vulgar language that might have knocked them out of the public arena in years past.

I have been expecting for some time that the ill-tempered, always-enraged Donald Trump will have a vulgar meltdown when someone has the audacity to challenge him in a debate.

I wonder if such a collapse would be costly at the polls. Perhaps not, given the tolerance his Republican supporters have demonstrated for a man who states one untruth after another as unimpeachable fact, and who insults entire classes of people, including women, those with physical challenges, veterans and former prisoners of war, like John McCain. I suppose that having no filter, tact, restraint or diplomacy is in vogue.

OREN SPIEGLER

Upper St. Clair, Pa.

Note from KBJ: Have you been paying attention, Oren Spiegler? Barack Obama is the most vulgar, divisive, thuggish, and intellectually dishonest president we've ever had. He is constitutionally incapable of presenting his opponents' arguments fairly. Those of us who teach critical thinking find him committing the straw-person fallacy on a daily basis. But what should we expect from a community organizer?

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The killings at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic are justly being denounced. The shooter should rightfully be jailed. We must not forget, however, that the clinic is a much worse offender, for it routinely kills babies yet to be born.

G.V. Climaco, Brea