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Media and guns

Dear Editor, Recently, while President Joe Biden was exposing his executive orders on gun control, two mass shootings were underway in Texas and South Carolina. Nothing Biden was doing would slow the epidemic. Starting in the ’70s the conditioning of youth to use guns in movies, TV and games was established. The one thing I learned in psychology class was conditioning. Without careful guidance, exposure to entertainment with shooting is conditioning. Let us eliminate guns from all the gross “entertainment” rather prohibit it from any pleasure seeking responsible ...

Blurring the lines

Dear Editor, Recently I read about this athlete “Hannah” Mouncey who now competes with women in Australian rules football. When we guys wrestled on the playground at recess time at the Starbrick school we had a name for those who could not cut it with the guys and went to play with the girls. It starts with the letter “s” and ends in “y” and it was not all that complimentary. What is happening in women’s sports today: bicycling (Rachel McKinnon) , track (Cece Telfer), etc. would be hilarious if it were not so unfair to the women who compete fairly. What is the ...

Simple solution

Dear Editor, I believe the answer to police violence is simple: don’t break the laws and follow the instructions of the officer. Lee Borger Jr., Clarendon

Media and guns

Dear Editor, Recently, while President Joe Biden was exposing his executive orders on gun control, two mass shootings were underway in Texas and South Carolina. Nothing Biden was doing would slow the epidemic. Starting in the ’70s the conditioning of youth to use guns in movies, TV and games was established. The one thing I learned in psychology class was conditioning. Without careful guidance, exposure to entertainment with shooting is conditioning. Let us eliminate guns from all the gross “entertainment” rather prohibit it from any pleasure seeking responsible ...

Blurring the lines

Dear Editor, Recently I read about this athlete “Hannah” Mouncey who now competes with women in Australian rules football. When we guys wrestled on the playground at recess time at the Starbrick school we had a name for those who could not cut it with the guys and went to play with the girls. It starts with the letter “s” and ends in “y” and it was not all that complimentary. What is happening in women’s sports today: bicycling (Rachel McKinnon) , track (Cece Telfer), etc. would be hilarious if it were not so unfair to the women who compete fairly. What is the ...

Simple solution

Dear Editor, I believe the answer to police violence is simple: don’t break the laws and follow the instructions of the officer. Lee Borger Jr., Clarendon