Finn clarifies American flag statement
Dear Editor,
My apologies to those whom are offended by my display of the American Flag, upside down. As was explained in the article, I feel that we are a nation in distress over mass shootings, and even individual shootings.
I certainly mean no disrespect to our servicemen, or our country either. The display is not illegal. As court cases in the past have ruled, its legal to sit on the flag, burn the flag, spit on it, wear it as clothing and anything else you can imagine. I feel that if we can get enough people to do the same (fly it upside down), it’ll be a visible sign to Congress that we want action, ANY action. They don’t seem to really care.
We used to fly the flag at half-mast after a mass shooting to exhibit our mutual sorrow for those lost but we don’t do it any more because there’s at least one mass shooting per week and it doesn’t make good news any more. It should always be at half staff!
We have a single organization (the NRA) that holds an entire nation hostage. They obstruct any type of regulation to keep guns out of the hands of people that shouldn’t have them.
The Republican Party has been bought and paid for, to resist any safe measures. It makes no sense that anyone can buy a gun, however obscene their reason. The Republicans put up a stink about any new immigrants coming to our shores because they will be terrorists and then we let them buy guns when they get here?
80+% of Americans, including gun owners, are in favor of gun regulations of some sort. Republican Congressmen have received (donation to their next election) from $100,000 to $1,400,000 each, and Republican Presidential candidates have received from a low of $1,500 (Chris Christie) to $273,000 (Ted Cruz) to refuse any common sense regulations.
At least 49 people were shot last week, accidently, by a child, or friend, or someone who was in the wrong place when the gun went off. Five died. This stuff doesn’t make for good news anymore so you won’t hear about it. Just the big loss of death makes the news now.
Democratic Congressman John Lewis, who started the sit-in in Congress two weeks ago for gun regulation, is now being investigated, because…
Republicans will investigate Hillary’s emails but the Democrats didn’t investigate either of the Bush’s when they each lost hundreds of thousands of them. I guess Democrats are just more forgiving vs. the hate filled Republican Congress.
I welcome readers to rebut this letter by writing to the newspaper for your own satisfaction. Prove me wrong!
Was the murder of policemen in Dallas on Thursday, July 7, enough to get the dialogue going?
Ted Finn
Prairie du Chien
