Opinion

As we look at the pictures from Uvalde, Texas; Buffalo, New York;. and other mass shooting sites, we’re having agonized conversations.

Your editorial of 13 May, 2022, regarding my client Jacqueline Peterson demands that charges be filed in the shooting of her abusive husband. It reminds me of a film in which the supporting characters wail that they must do something. The lead character reminds them that, no, they must do the right thing.

Change. Something that is completely natural, yet it can be dreaded.

Europe remembers the murders, destruction and subjugation of WWII, and history is now repeating itself in Ukraine. NATO countries have to vastly increase their militaries, both defensively and offensively, to thwart Russia. Tactical nuclear missile systems should be deployed within NATO countries. The addition of Sweden and Finland to NATO will give it a strategic presence in the north.

At some point, others who recall the lost world of real conservativism – people who, like me, campaigned and voted for Ronald Reagan, and who cheered George H.W. Bush’s work to create a “kinder and gentler” nation – need to look U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley in the eye, and themselves in the heart, based on this reality: