Opinion Line (April 11)

I am due to renew my driver’s license, but I am contemplating not doing it. If you can conceal-carry without training, license or insurance, why should you be required to have all three to drive a vehicle?

If the gun lobby is successful and forces all businesses to allow guns on their premises, then we will be even closer to discovering what its true agenda is about.

I have to assume that Second Amendment devotees who are championing their right to carry guns in all circumstances are members of a well-regulated militia. If not, they are outside the conditions of the amendment, and are really just anarchists, waving their guns around.

Why do people talk about “believing” in the Second Amendment? What other amendment is spoken of in this manner? It’s not Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. It’s the law of the land, something our Founding Fathers viewed as an unalienable right.

Obama says this deal with Iran is our best bet. I’m sorry, but with the security of the U.S. at stake you don’t take the best bet. You take the sure thing, period. The U.S. must survive.

It’s hard to determine which party is more untrustworthy, the Iranians or our president, when it comes to the details of the Iranian nuclear framework.

An Iran deal for only 10 years? Obama is going to leave our children, Israel and the rest of the civilized world with the real threat of hostile nuclear weapons. This “deal” is an unimaginable and pathetic nightmare.

I support our military 100 percent but cringe when I hear the word “enemy.” The people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and the rest are not the enemy. They didn’t invade us. We invaded them. We are the enemy. How hard is that to understand? Our military is being misused.

Latching lids on trash containers? Ha. On several occasions I have used rubber straps to hold down my container lid. Each time the driver did not bother to undo the strap but rather hoisted up the container, shook it until the strap broke or came undone, then drove off.

If the Intrust Bank Arena seats were not so crammed together and uncomfortable, people would not have been standing on the stairs at the Fleetwood Mac concert. That was my first and last concert at the arena.

Fleetwood Mac gave a fantastic concert. I didn’t see drunks or rude people, or a lot of people on the stairs. If people were rude, it was probably because of the lack of legroom in regular seating. Most of the people attending were middle-aged and older and pretty laid-back.

This story was originally published April 10, 2015 at 7:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (April 11)."