Lateaka hit most of the important points about the shooting in Tuscon. I think that it is everyone's right to bear arms, and to express how they feel about politicians, but I also think that the gunman took it a little too far by shooting up a grocery store. The innocent people that were killed is also a citizenship problem because innocent people should have the freedom to go to the store and not worry about people coming to "protest". While we do have the right to protest, we have the right to peacefully protest. When things start becoming violent that's when it becomes a problem, that's when your liberties are taken away.
On the basis of morals, I feel that everyone has a different idea of what is morally right. But one thing that most everyone in this country agrees on is that it is not morally right to kill anyone, for any reason, with the exception of the death penalty.
2)the much less tragic, but still newsworthy comments by our governor on 1/14
I feel like the governor not going to the dinner was a little bit weird. It doesn't make him racist but it would have been nice of him to go out of respect for the holiday. There was really no reason for him to not go, and if he doesn't want people to think he is a racist, then it might have been in his best interest for him to make an appearance. While his son might be from Jamaica, one would think that he would want his son to learn about his heritage and about what Martin Luther King had to offer the people of the United States. And celebrate him with the rest of the country. I just find it a little bit weird that he didn't want to go. And he was a little bit rude about the whole idea. But there is freedom of speech for everyone, with no exception.
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