Letter to the Editor: Cleveland Free Times' "trifecta of political failure"

November 10, 2004
Cleveland Free Times

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PUT THAT IN YOUR QUIXOTIC PIPE

I am writing now for two reasons.

First, I'm a procrastinator and kept forgetting.

Second, I was awaiting the last of three events to take place.

Those three events are the passage of concealed carry in Ohio, the expiration of the sham “assault weapons” ban, and finally the reelection of George Bush.

You not only took an editorial stand regarding the first two, you gave the supporters of oppressive gun controls a free platform from which to preach their authoritarianism, and with nary a dissenting voice. Not to put too fine a point on it, you were handed your collective heads. Concealed carry passed in Ohio and is going strong. In the coming year, there will doubtless be successful efforts to fix the nonsensical rules regarding carry in automobiles. Forcing 110-pound women to fistfight with 210-pound rapists, and unarmed gays to be bashed by thugs with bats are family values only in the Bin Laden family.

The so-called “assault weapon” ban expired, and clearly much to your chagrin, the gutters aren't heaped with corpses. But then facts, logic and reason were never the province of gun control advocates, many of whom use the techniques and occasionally the idiom of the Holocaust denial movement. At the Berea gun show, there was table after table of semi-automatic rifles and large-capacity magazines. Olmsted Township has yet to take on the character of Fallujah. Your disappointment is palpable.

And that finally brings us to the Democratic debacle of last Tuesday. None of Kerry's supporters seemed to really want him. They just wanted Bush less. Unfortunately for you, lies, threats, and fawning appeals to those who despise this nation availed you little. And what have you learned from this trek down a trail of tears? Nothing.

Kerry tried to obfuscate his decades of support for oppressive gun controls by pretending to hunt and violating game laws in the process.

The Free Times has well and truly won the trifecta of political failure. You're 100 percent when it comes to backing losers.

Christopher C. Morton
Rocky River