Keep Don Feder

Published: Wednesday, January 12, 2000

Re: The letter, "Don Feder's Column" (A-J, 12-1-99) and the Opinion page article, "Left addicted to displays of indignation" (A-J, 12-1-99) by syndicated columnist Don Feder.

How appropriate. Today The A-J had a letter to the editor criticizing Don Feder and on the opposite page was Mr. Feder's column concerning his response on offending liberals. He did err in using the mentally ill and the homeless as a reference comparing them to politicians but Don Feder is otherwise a breath of fresh air in an increasingly liberal and amoral "feel-good" society. Keep him.

I read with interest The A-J news article on the two U.S. federal agents who were stopped and surrounded by a large number of drug cartel criminals in Matamoras, Mexico.

In my youth, my parents vacationed in Matamoras, a beautiful city as I remember it. I say this about the city, because these criminals had automatic weapons, openly displayed on a public street during daylight.

There was also mentioned that the Mexican police cooperate with and are a part of this filthy business. Mexico has prohibited ordinary citizens from owning firearms for over 50 years that I know about.

This is yet another example of criminals having weapons when law-abiding citizens do not have the right. Because of a few unfortunate instances, America is becoming a nation that believes that guns in the hands of its law-abiding citizens are more of a threat than nuclear weapons and the capacity to deliver those weapons given to the Red Chinese.

RICHARD NEWMAN, Lubbock Via e-mail