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Letter: No one needs an assault weapon with a 30-round clip
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I'm a liberal, as were our Founding Fathers. It wasn't conservatives who dumped the tea into Boston Harbor. Tax thing, you know. I'm not crazy about them, either. But I have been paying taxes for 50 years because I know I can't pave my own roads or buy my own cruise missiles. And the Second Amendment does not say that every well-regulated militant teenager needs an assault weapon with a 30-round clip. No one does. In 1967, my friends and neighbors let me go to Vietnam where they gave me an M16 with a 20-round clip. The plan was to keep Vietnam from going with the Russians: 58,000 dead later, Russia turned capitalist and Vietnam went communist and sells us T-shirts and caps. The Supreme Court appointed George Bush president in 2000. He went to Crawford and went to sleep. Bush came into office with four years of surpluses and a national debt projected to be paid off in 2006. Alan Greenspan said we were paying off the debt too fast. So Bush cut taxes on the rich and started a couple of unfunded wars and left us in a recession. We didn't go over the cliff, no thanks to the Republican Congress. They have fought President Obama tooth and nail but we will recover anyway. Republicans want Obama to lead them in the direction they want to go. How about a Depression this time? What do the Republican Congress, George Bush and Dick Cheney have in common? Under 20 percent approval ratings. James Gall, Princeton, Iowa 
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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.
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