Opinion Line Extra (June 13)

If you want to draft effective gun policies, the first step is to abandon the idiotic notion that you can stop bad people from getting guns.

There are just too many guns in the U.S. to confiscate them all. It’s like Donald Trump’s idiotic plan to round up the undocumented. This is just a fantasy spread by the NRA and its dim-witted followers.

Law-abiding people show up at an airport without a gun, because they know they aren’t supposed to have one there, and become targets for a psychopath for whom gun laws mean nothing. Intelligent people will blame that bad guy and the restriction on people protecting themselves. Idiots will blame the gun.

I just went over Crooked Creek. It must be named after a politician.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s description of the economy as solid makes me think she is buying her cigarettes in Colorado.

Laughing at investigators, long coughing spells and barking like a dog on stage are real signs that Hillary Clinton is mentally ill. No wonder she won’t take questions from the news media.

Do you want to tell the world that Clinton is your best and brightest? Do you really want to do that?

Facing defeat, the GOP’s only thoughts were for Trump to lie even more than he had lied before. After all, it’s not respect or integrity they seek. It’s power, which leads to control and lots of money. Republicans are so greedy that lying has become their means to all ends.

Republicans chastise Donald Trump for uttering racist comments about a U.S.-born Latino judge. Then those same folks pledge to vote for Trump. I have more respect for another racist presidential candidate, George Wallace. He and his pro-segregation supporters said what they meant and meant what they said.

I lived through the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Trump’s rise in the U.S. is eerily similar.

All you conservatives out there: Look at what conservative Sam Brownback and his conservative Legislature have done to this state. Are you ready now to allow some moderates in to temper all that needs to be done to bring our state into a more positive role?

Davis Merritt’s “False framing of school dispute continues” (June 7 Opinion) should be required reading for the governor and all legislators before they make any further statements about the education lawsuit. Statements thus far have come close to treason, and definitely show ignorance of our constitutional system.

“Demonstrators call on Kansas lawmakers to fix school funding.” Citizens gathered outside North High to demand effective government in Topeka. Why did Kansas.com characterize an engaged citizenry as “demonstrators”?

This story was originally published June 13, 2016 at 12:01 AM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (June 13)."