Opinion Line Extra (July 14)

The gun-control crowd seems to think that if you pass another law, the criminals will suddenly decide to obey that law despite ignoring all others. Laws haven’t eliminated drug use, murder or drunken driving. I’d rather be able to defend myself from the criminals.

Hey, NRA: One bad guy with an assault rifle can defeat many good guys with handguns. Weapons of mass destruction should not be sold to anyone or everyone in America without any background checks.

One of the reasons that the NRA people have always cited for weapons rights is to protect themselves against an oppressive government. After several questionable police shootings of African-Americans, one decided to fight back in Dallas recently. Is this what the NRA wants?

Before all of the facts were known, and the shootings thoroughly investigated, President Obama openly declared the police guilty in the shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana. His comments were obviously taken as an authorization for violence against our nation’s law enforcement officers.

I’m tired of the lack of remorse. As an American, it’s our right to carry a gun. It’s not a police officer’s right to kill me for exercising that right. Police are supposed to be brave. I don’t see that in the news.

A letter writer said that abortion is safer than the use of penicillin, which has been linked to one death in 50,000 courses of the medication. Wrong. In fact, 50,000 out of 50,000 die in abortions.

I have no desire to give my hard-earned taxpayer money to illegal immigrants. Zip, zero, zilch.

If there are no penalties for lying under oath, Americans will lose all their integrity, but then that’s what Obama and Clinton want.

The tales of the Clintons remind me of that TV show my dad loved to watch, “The Untouchables.” Only in this case, the Untouchables are not the good guys.

Mitt Romney’s prediction that Trump will put us into another recession is probably correct, since the last two GOP presidents took us into the two worst ones since the Great Depression.

What so many Christians fail to see is that Donald Trump is nothing more than a 21st-century remake of one of the money changers who were keeping shop at the temple. You know, those Jesus took a whip to and sternly gave what for.

Isn’t it funny that only a few decades ago peanut allergies were virtually unknown and unheard of, and now all kinds of accommodations in the food industry have to be provided for people who allegedly have them?

This story was originally published July 14, 2016 at 12:02 AM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (July 14)."