Editor, Gazette-Journal:
Unfortunately, I was reading your paper (online) at the exact time Charlie Kirk was shot and, ultimately, assassinated last Wednesday afternoon.
Specifically, I was reading a letter written by Jim Knupp, in which he puts forth a litany of grievances against Congressman Wittman, presumably our president and Republicans in general.
All of us have heard these talking points before.
I would like to reassure Mr. Knupp that most Republicans are most definitely not blind, but unlike former President Biden, Charles Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Maxine Waters, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Corey Booker—to name a few—we are capable of standing with and beside the late Mr. Kirk to debate the points Mr. Knupp raises without resorting to vile and inaccurate portrayals of those with whom we disagree.
The late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes—considered to be a progressive—wrote:
“The hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don’t you know what that means? Well, I will tell ...