You'll have to pry my cold, dead fingers from my T-shirt
Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 20:01 I’ve just read another great editorial by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services, called ‘Guns That Talk’. As Koehler says, “it’s like truth or dare. And it’s legal.”
Isn’t it puzzling that guns outside an event where Obama is going to speak is alright, but a T-shirt message at a Bush event warranted getting taken away by the Secret Service. Do these same gun toters and their defenders remember that we’ve had four presidents and one presidential candidate assassinated, not to mention Gerald Ford staring down a would be assassin and James Brady taking a bullet for Reagan?
Even more disturbing are those who would not only defend this type of ‘free speech’ but encourage it. Yes, encourage it during some of the most heated summers of public discourse in recent memory. Free speech has taken on some curious meaning in these troubled times. I call it wildly irresponsible.
You have to ask ‘Why?’
