Opinion Line (Oct. 11)

In the 1950s we had few gun laws and few killings. We did have intact families and wholesome TV programs, movies and music. Passing strict gun laws makes us feel good but has little effect on our violent, godless culture.

The recent mass shootings aren’t because there are more guns available, but because there is more evil available.

How do I know if someone coming into a public place with an open-carry weapon is a good guy or a bad guy? If I shoot to kill, am I a murderer or have I defended myself and protected the public?

The Carr brothers were tried and convicted of one of the most heinous crimes in our state’s history. Now the liberal Kansas Supreme Court refuses to do its duty and has passed the buck to the more liberal U.S. Supreme Court. Justice delayed is justice denied.

After the Carr brothers committed their atrocities in 2000, I wondered how long it would take to punish them. We’re still waiting. They should get death, quick. It’s not like the perverted murderers gave their victims any rights.

So the Governor’s Office says expanding health care to low-income Kansans is “morally reprehensible.” However, raising taxes on the poor to pay for tax cuts for business owners is good government. Does this make you Kansas proud?

The governor’s spokeswoman stated it would be “morally reprehensible” to use available Medicaid funds. What is morally reprehensible is the governor not admitting his tax plan is reprehensible and starting the process to amend it.

One only needs to look at the skyrocketing cost of higher education to predict what will happen at the K-12 level if conservatives succeed in their efforts to privatize it.

Take some genetic material from the governor and the County Commission chairman, mix it with some paranoia, xenophobia, religiosity, a pinch of gun fetish, and a dash of disdain for the poor, and you have the perfect Halloween witches’ brew to create more candidates to run for office in 2016.

A majority decision by Sedgwick County commissioners cutting funds to a program that provides food to impoverished women, infants and children shows the rest of the world just how mean-spirited and uncaring our local government leaders are. I am ashamed and embarrassed by these men we’ve elected to public office.

Why do we, as a country, ask for God’s grace when we go through disaster, then turn right around and tell Him to stay out of our business as a country?

As a visitor to the WSU chapel, I find that prayer rug a symbol of intimidation and non-inclusiveness rather than an accommodation. How many mosques would make the same change for Christians?

Government institutions should not be running any religious establishments, “chapels” or otherwise, at all. Not the role of government. Close it down.

Can’t we all just get along?

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