Letters to the Editor

Civil dialogue

Editor, the Journal,

I don’t recall ever agreeing with letter writer Mr. Anvik ... until now. I understand the Journal’s editorial decision to “simmer down” the vitriolic rhetoric from some letter writers and favor comment on less divisive local issues. But as the saying goes, all politics are local.

How more local can you get than government control of a woman’s womb? Or children in our grade schools learning reading, writing, arithmetic and how to shelter from a madman with a legal assault weapon?

The Journal can be a valuable venue for truthful discourse, especially in these days of social media misinformation and fear-mongering. I also understand that would require added editorial effort of censoring falsehoods and personal attacks.

At this critical juncture, our country, our democracy, needs thoughtful and civil dialogue now, not silence, to simmer down the danger of divisiveness.

So Ardean, I disagree with most of what you say but I defend your desire to say it (though not with an AR-15).

Regardless of the Journal’s policy, I will keep my subscription. I enjoy Kirk and the puzzles.

J. Anderson, Shelton