Great column on knives from a college newspaper

the_mac said:
When I first read the article, I sent a letter of support.

Scrolled down a little, and sent one to the editor.

Now I'm thinking of submitting it to the Lance to see if they would reprint it (U. Windsor student paper).
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You may have to ask for permission from my editor on that account. I saw your letter, I appreciate it. Thanks!
 
Did the editor have anything to say about deliberately replacing what you wrote with a more threatening word that is counterproductive to the point of your article?
 
Awesome article.

I just wrote an email to the author also. I just now realized that the writer is one of our own :)

I'll send an email to the editor too.

Great job!
 
Great job on the article :thumbup: . Keep up the good work and i'm glad to know theirs someone out their trying to get the message out to those that need it.
 
Good article. Thanks for posting.

There is an element in this country that wants to control (and probably tax) and make dependent upon them the decisions of responsible and law-abiding folks. They will take away our freedoms given by the constitution and dictate to us what is good or bad and how we have to live our lives.

Know how to combat this element? Vote! Don't bitch and whine just VOTE! Vote for those who respect you enough to value your independent judgement about what is best for you and yours.
 
ThreeWorlds said:
Did the editor have anything to say about deliberately replacing what you wrote with a more threatening word that is counterproductive to the point of your article?
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No, I haven't been able to get in touch with her since it's spring break and I think she's in Mexico, but it was probably an innocuous mistake. The editing is frequently... sub par. 'Radon' graphics cards and athletes 'runnning' and whatnot. It's not the greatest paper in the world, but in her defense she's a friend of mine, a decent person, and she's as new at her job as I am at publishing my writing, only she's under more scrutiny.
 
I agree with everything the article said about post-9/11 hysteria and the exaggerated fear of knives. But that's a problem of measure, not of principle. If everyone used knives as tools only, there would be no occasion to limit their presence in public places like planes or stadiums. Since they are used as weapons, there is such occasion, and it would be irresponsible not to meet it.

As for the freedom issue, I do think the freedom of the many to live without harm to limb and life may make it advisable in certain cases to limit one man's right to carry whatever weapon he likes.
If you ride into Dodge City and the sheriff confiscates your gun because there's been too many gunfights and armed robberies, he doesn't have to be a liberal. But he complies with the liberal principle that individual freedom stops only, but necessarily, where it curtails the liberty of others (and then it's a question of balancing, mere hysteria shouldn't outweigh our reasonable interest in EDCing a non-combat folder, of course.).
Otherwise, you get the tyranny of the strong.

Personally, I think that's the historical watershed between
the conservative notion of freedom (the personal freedom to do whatever you like... at least if you're a WASPish heterosexual conservative man)
and the liberal understanding of freedom or liberty (civil rights and freedom from oppression/discrimination/curtailment of choice for all citizens even if non-white, of a non-male gender, of non-heterosexual orientation, of non-conformist views, or - unarmed / a sheeple :-)

Just my two cents,
no offense,
thanks for not killing me :-)
t.
 
madcap_magician said:
No, I haven't been able to get in touch with her since it's spring break and I think she's in Mexico, but it was probably an innocuous mistake. The editing is frequently... sub par. 'Radon' graphics cards and athletes 'runnning' and whatnot. It's not the greatest paper in the world, but in her defense she's a friend of mine, a decent person, and she's as new at her job as I am at publishing my writing, only she's under more scrutiny.
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Your Editor-in-Chief asked if she could publish my response to your article today. She did not comment on the substitution of the word 'brandishing' for the more appropriate 'carrying' which I pointed out in my response though.
 
Well done Madcap. Let me know when you're in the TC metro area and I'll show you one of the shops you may not have heard of.

-Nick
 
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