Just waiting for next nutter to open fire here in the US

Why does a man from a small town in Australia go to New Zealand to murder? The answer is straightforward, the availability of weapons.

Australian gun laws are far more restrictive about the sale and licensing of guns than New Zealand. By contrast in the United States you can build yourself an arsenal of automatic weapons then sit in a high rise hotel and kill as many people as time will permit.

The greater the availability of modern rifles and the greater their lethality, the greater the number of deaths. The more guns per head of population the more deaths however well trained and screened the gun owners.

The proof lies in the death rates from firearms in countries who control access to guns and those who don’t.

The logic? ... Control access to guns and fewer people will die. In the United States all we can do is wait for the next “nutter” to open fire and hope and pray it isn’t anyone we know.

Media covered New Zealand massacre; What about Africa?

Larry Fultz, the executive director of the Arizona Interfaith Movement, did a commendable job in reaching out to console Muslims, and express solidarity with them, in the face of an attack on a mosque in New Zealand by a deranged, hate-filled individual, that resulted in 50 tragic deaths.

But Mr. Fultz neglected to include in his condolences another community of faith that has suffered even greater devastation recently, this time by the Fulani jihadists, an organized group of Islamist terrorists who murdered over 50 Nigerian Christians this last week. This brings to 120 the death toll this month of Christians at the hands of these jihadists, who have also destroyed their homes and shot down those trying to escape.

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Perhaps Mr. Fultz would have been more sympathetic if he had even been aware of the slaughter of the Nigerian Christians, which, for some reason, was lightly reported in the Western press.

Yes teachers are frustrated by low pay, but also fear for their safety

Columnist Joanna Allhands reasons that Arizona doesn’t have more teachers because of low pay and high workloads. I contend that she has identified only half of the problem.

I had many teachers as business clients. The lament of most teachers was unsafe and violent classrooms, lack of support from parents and insufficient support from school administration.

In other words, the teachers felt they were on an island by themselves. Low pay and workloads contribute to the problem, nevertheless there are other serious problems to this issue.

The system’s internal-support structure needs to be addressed, as well as financial issues.

Why is McSally being singled out for criticism on emergency vote?

One more time in unison: The wall is not just President Trump’s wall. It is our wall. It is the wall he was elected to provide to protect the American people from illegal border crossings.

Angel Rodriquez (“McSally bears shame of voting for Trump’s wall emergency”) somehow would like us to believe Sen. Martha McSally violated her oath of office by supporting President Trump’s emergency declaration.

Nice try, but no cigar. Perhaps Mr. Rodriguez would like to enlighten us on why McSally is the only member of Congress who violated her oath of office.

Perhaps the real shame is that Congress has failed to represent the will of those who elected them by not offering a plan to secure our borders.

Senator from South Carolina has a touch of the Aye-reesh, he does

Oh, Lindsey Graham, the pipes, the pipes are calling

From glen to mountain side

The summer’s gone and all the roses dying

’Tis you, ’Tis you must go and I must bye

Lindsey, where have ye gone? glen and down the