Campus police keeping us safe, not!

I would like to offer my congratulations to the University of Georgia Police Department for another job well done.

I’m so glad they decided to arrest and charge Douglas McClure with two felony counts of weapon possession.

Thank God the police apprehended this crazed maniac before he killed someone with the deadly airsoft pistol with bullet-proof vest-penetrating plastic pellets.

Nevermind the fact students like Mykeesha Seay and Nicole Duquemin are having hundreds of dollars of property stolen from them.

We can all sleep soundly at night knowing McClure’s criminal plot was thwarted.

It’s a good thing those police officers know what’s best for us and the community at large, otherwise we might end up like Canada.

ANDY JONES
Senior, Macon
Finance

Chiego’s alter ego is Captain Obvious

Kudos to Chris Chiego for pointing out the on-line encyclopedic source Wikipedia is not reliable.

I had been using the Web site as an exclusive source for my papers and academic research, but I’ll have to reconsider this habit.

As I browsed the George W. Bush page last week on the Web site, I thought it really was a fact he “drinks urine” and “cries like a baby each night.”

I guess some of the Wikipedia contributors bring personal biases to their editing of source material.

Thanks again for shedding light on one of the true mysteries of the modern world.

KEVIN BARKER
Senior, Pine Mountain
History and English

New gun law helps citizens, not thugs

Mr. Hackler, I do believe something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

The Georgia Legislature (in a rare move of giving back freedoms instead of taking them away) has decided that it will no longer violate the Second Amendment of our nation.

Making concealed weapons in a vehicle legal will not lead to a bunch of hot-heads and criminals taking advantage of it. They already are.

The only increase will be in law-abiding citizens carrying weapons to protect themselves from violent predators, not from the tail-gating SUV.

Countries that make more restrictive laws concerning firearms almost always see an increase in gun-related crime (England and Switzerland, for example).

This act puts a measure of responsibility back in the hands of the individual and away from the government, which is almost always a good thing.

Oh, and by the way, John Wayne movies actually show how law-abiding citizens can responsibly use firearms!

MICHAEL KENNEDY
Sophomore, Savannah
History