Counter-counter response about Arizona

Jesse Pyle wrote a counter-response to my response of his letter Thursday.  While I would prefer not to write a counter-counter response in The Post, as the utility would be small and it’d annoy rather than spark interest, I feel I should make a few passing comments.  His letter lacked additional substance while highlighting a …

Did “extreme rhetoric” cause the Arizona shooting?

This is a letter I wrote to the Post (the newspaper at Ohio University) in response to a letter today:   As I began to read Jesse Pyle’s letter to the editor yesterday concerning the recent Arizona shooting, I had hope.  Unfortunately, they were crushed within seconds. Mr. Pyle asserts that the question of blame …