Gangs & Guns
February 19, 2024 at 5:56 p.m.
Editor, Times-Union:
The palms of my hands after an application of lotion look very good, youthful and vibrant. Turn them over and blemishes and scars tell a differing history.
Further up my wrists are brown age spots with wrinkled skin a banner of old age. Change due to age is always obvious and often unsettling. Not so our national history. Some things never change.
Last February 14th we witnessed duplicate history, at least that appears to be the case. Journalists will have added clarity by the time you read this if published.
In the late ’40s and early ’50s I remember several dime novels describing gang life in our major big cities on either coast. Indeed, there were many tales of gang verses gang, even on display on the Broadway stage. “B” movies drew near capacity attendances in small towns.
Now, authorities say the gunfire in Kansas City, Mo., may have been the result of two different groups. Still to be precisely determined.
Is it the same as the ’40s and ’50s? Is it only a simple application of discipline at home? That's what some continue to say.
What about guns. A Washington, D.C., pastor defined it well. I'd like to have it verbatim. A gun's trigger is squeezed by a person who decides to fire the weapon. It is the individual person who makes the decision to harm another.
Teaching love of one another is paramount in any household parenting. Is it in yours?
Dan Lee
Warsaw, via email
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Editor, Times-Union:
The palms of my hands after an application of lotion look very good, youthful and vibrant. Turn them over and blemishes and scars tell a differing history.
Further up my wrists are brown age spots with wrinkled skin a banner of old age. Change due to age is always obvious and often unsettling. Not so our national history. Some things never change.
Last February 14th we witnessed duplicate history, at least that appears to be the case. Journalists will have added clarity by the time you read this if published.
In the late ’40s and early ’50s I remember several dime novels describing gang life in our major big cities on either coast. Indeed, there were many tales of gang verses gang, even on display on the Broadway stage. “B” movies drew near capacity attendances in small towns.
Now, authorities say the gunfire in Kansas City, Mo., may have been the result of two different groups. Still to be precisely determined.
Is it the same as the ’40s and ’50s? Is it only a simple application of discipline at home? That's what some continue to say.
What about guns. A Washington, D.C., pastor defined it well. I'd like to have it verbatim. A gun's trigger is squeezed by a person who decides to fire the weapon. It is the individual person who makes the decision to harm another.
Teaching love of one another is paramount in any household parenting. Is it in yours?
Dan Lee
Warsaw, via email