Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

letters to the editor:

Sharron Angle, like Donald Trump, invited violence

Thank you for the Thomas Friedman column “Ex-Israeli prime minster’s assassination shows the power of a rival’s words” (Las Vegas Sun, Aug. 13).

Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated with the same loose gun talk we are enduring. In Israel, it was Nazis and traitors. Here it’s “Lock her up!” or “Maybe you Second Amendment folks can do something about Crooked Hillary appointing her gun-confiscating judges!” Donald Trump throws red meat to his gun-happy mouth-breathers, but he is not the first.

Our own Sharron Angle is famous for counting on “Second Amendment remedies” as a backstop if election results are not to her liking. Where were the local broadcast and print media pushing back against her reckless and inciteful language? The media are part of the problem when they don’t.

Editor’s note: This letter has been revised to correct an error over the identity of the assassination victim.