Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
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Dear Editor, Usually more than half of all gun deaths that occur in this country are due to suicide or accident. Therefore of the 715,000 gun deaths that occurred in the US in the last 20 years, as mentioned in last week’s letter to the Editor, around 300,000 were homicides. All gun death is tragic, especially gun homicide. While I do not believe gun control is the answer to this problem I do believe it is imperative that we as a country address what is causing people to kill others. Guns are a tool to kill but they are not the cause. While w...
Dear Editor, After reading the political debate going on in the Ledger Viewpoint page, it is good to see that freedom of speech is alive and well in Whitehall, Montana. Unfortunately, this is not universally the case in our country as we read of people being shamed, ostracized, censored, and even fired from their jobs simply for expressing their beliefs. Debate in the public square is a hallmark of a free society; those living under totalitarian/communist regimes know only too well the value of free speech and the consequences of its loss. Immi...