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and African Americans treat women
might be seen as objectionable, but to
them its normal; it’s part of their cul-
ture. Listen to any rap song and pay at-
tention to how women are portrayed,
and then listen to any country song. Big
difference right?
If the liberals have their way, Latin
and black culture would be wiped off the
face of the earth because they think its
antithetical to our ideas of respect and
equality. Because we impose our ideals
of gender relations on people of other
cultures, black and Latino men get ar-
rested for rape and sexual assault at an
alarmingly higher rate than white men.
Stop punishing them for simply be-
ing who they are and acting according
to the norms of their culture. Cultural
genocide is real and the Left is at the
helm of the ship.
Arthur Waterbridge
Eugene
SECOND AMENDMENTS
The drafters of the Second Amend-
ment of the Constitution did not envi-
sion semi-automatic or automatic weap-
ons, bump stocks or untraceable 3-D
printed guns when they wrote it. They
certainly didn’t imagine those types of
weapons getting into the hands of civil-
ians and being used for mass murders in
schools, churches, etc.
It is conceivable that at some future
date there will be weapons that are even
more destructive, more lethal than the
ones already out there: laser guns, Star
Trek-type phasers, guns that shoot pel-
lets filled with ricin or anthrax, etc.
Our elected officials, the people who
make the laws, need to have a little fore-
thought and be proactive about the
future of weapons policy. To date, they
have been nothing but reactive and not
much has come of that. The Second
Amendment is passé; it needs to be re-
vised. It needs to have a clause allowing
for further revision as weapons technol-
ogy advances.
Gun owners and gun rights activists
have to realize that at some point their
E U G E N E W E E K LY . C O M
right to own certain types of weapons
will be restricted. For the good of all of
us, how could it be otherwise?
Chuck West
Eugene
BAD GREEN DEAL
“Green New Deal” is a great slo-
gan. Unfortunately, the campaign ig-
nores inconvenient facts.
We are beyond the limits to growth
of non-renewable fossil fuels and of “re-
newable” resources such as forests, fish,
soil, fresh water and food. Find details
about overconsumption, overpopula-
tion and overshoot at peakchoice.org.
Using unprecedented levels of ener-
gy does not mean there are equally sized
alternatives to power the American Way
of Life (AWOL). I have used solar panels
since 1990; they are great but not as
concentrated. It takes fossil fuels and
mineral ores to make, move and install
them. Claims we could have 100 percent
of current consumption without fossil
fuels don’t describe how to heat cold cit-
ies during a “polar vortex.”
We will live radically differently on
the resource downslope, but the end
of economic growth doesn’t poll well in
Democratic Party focus groups. Green-
washing and wishful thinking are popu-
lar but unable to sustain social safety
nets.
Democratic politicians profess con-
cern for climate while promoting high-
way expansions, urbanization and in-
dustrial clearcutting.
As the fracking bubble subsides (due
to geology) we will enter the new world
of permanent energy rationing, which
will collapse the exponential growth
economy and fuel scapegoating of
whom to blame.
We are damned if we drill because of
toxic pollution and climate chaos.
We are damned if we don’t because
fossil fuels power food supplies, keep
cities warm in the winter, and run elec-
tric power grids.
Mark Robinowitz
Eugene
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Workshop
April 4, 6 pm
A Night of Vocal Arts 2019
Inspirational Sounds, Mind The Gap, The Eugene Gleemen,
The Greater Eugene Chorus & Honey Whiskey Trio
Saturday, April 6
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