In the early 1980s, I purchased a 12-gauge shotgun at Sears in the Westmoreland Mall, and I walked through the mall to carry it out to my car. Unthinkable today, as society’s views on weapons have changed in the last decades. In reflecting on those changing societal views, I think
After the horrific Uvalde school shooting, Americans demand radical reform. The letter “Solution to school shootings” (May 26, TribLIVE) said, “Make every school a hard target with one entrance with an armed guard and a metal detector; keep all other doors locked. Protect a school like a Tiffany jewelry store.
Perhaps intending balanced coverage, the Tribune-Review let the public be misled about ivermectin and covid-19 with the letter “Ivermectin information slanted” (Oct. 22, TribLIVE), which stated, “Ivermectin has been safely used for human treatments for years, and won its inventor a Nobel Prize.” That’s misleading. The treatments involved parasitic worm