Guys,
I wrote to the paper, as suggested. Here is my reply to them:
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I wanted to write to you concerning your article on the Fang family who were recently involved in an unfortunate and preventable shooting.
I will start by saying that I am vehemently opposed to how you portrayed Mr. Fang. You wrote of him as if HE were the perpetrator. Please, let us use some common sense. Mr. Fang exercised his unalienable rights in defending his household against terror. How can you, as supposedly intelligent people, be critical of a man who heroically acted on behalf of his family. Tell me, was Mr. Fang simply supposed to comply with his attacker's requests? Was he supposed to go down on his knees and beg for mercy? LET'S NOT FORGET. THE MAN WAS IN HIS OWN HOME. Do we, as Americans, no longer have the right to protect our person, our property, our families? What you espouse is a corrupt, and leftist mentality. It's OK for the perpetrator to maim, rape and kill, using, mind you, no Constitutional rights in his actions as terrorist, but it's NOT OK for a law-abiding man, in his OWN HOME, to exercise his guaranteed Constitutional rights. But that's OK according to the misguided leftist, liberal way of thinking, because said perpetrators had a hard youth and were abused, and having grown up in broken homes and been subjected to horrible conditions, they have the right to act out their frustrations on the innocent. The surviving jerk will be out on the street in less than a year, if he even sees the klink.
Grow up, take of the Socialist blindfold.
Look at history. In rather recent times in America, everyone carried a gun, and openly. If you care to use the super computer your esteemed publication (and I use that term loosely) possesses, you will note that upon thorough inpection of history, when society at large is armed, people tend to behave themselves. Less people died when EVERYONE was carrying a gun than today, when few can legally do so. When you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have them. But that's OK, because they had a tragic youth. Grow up!