Read the Express-News letters to the editor for May 11.
After the mass shooting in Allen, a reader says Gov. Greg Abbott should start calling the incidents atrocities, not tragedies. We can prevent atrocities.While unhinged people buy assault weapons and high-capacity magazines to kill Texans, our governor and Legislature spend their time on controlling women’s bodies and deciding who should be allowed to play on junior high soccer teams.
First, the skeletons of horses have not finished developing until 6 years of age. The horses racing professionally are typically 2 or 3 years old. They are subjected to extraordinary and unnatural stress on their bodies. Horse racing has everything to do with human greed and nothing to do with the welfare of the horse. Horses who don’t win are discarded like used tissues and depend on horse welfare groups for any future.
Oh, wait. Even the deaths of 6- to 9-year-old human children don’t wake people up, so why would it matter if it’s just horses?With regard to the shooting in the mall in Allen, Gov. Greg Abbott described the incident as an “unspeakable tragedy.” His choice of words was incorrect: the event was an atrocity.Paul Arneberg states: “Human acts of evil done to others are atrocities, not tragedies.”
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