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Brian Stuckey of Denver writes:

This writer was working in San Francisco in November 1978 when Supervisor Dan White fatally shot Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk in City Hall.
While such incidents are rare, they do, in fact, happen as history illustrates. It is absurd to suggest that the State Capitol ought to conduct “business as usual,” after the fatal shooting in Denver. If security measures are essential at the airport and City Hall, why should the State Capitol be exempt from such precautions? While such measures may be inconvenient for some, the primary consideration should be the safety of the Governor and his staff.

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READER COMMENTS

Wasn't this letter posted yesterday? Granted it's the first time Stuckey has said anything that remotely made sense, but do we have to have the same letter twice - especially from someone who we get way too much of anyway?

It seems to me that the security measures which were in place actually worked.

The crazy man was killed before he drew his weapon. Only the crazy man was killed.

The line in the song refers to the "...home of the brave."

Let's not let the failed actions of one crazy person scare us into altering our own behavior.

This reader saw the same letter posted yesterday. I don't want to strain the thinking powers of the letters editor, but I feel fairly certain that the readers of the News and citizens of Colorado would not be harmed by a day without Stuckey.

Mr. Stuckey doesn't say what he was working at in San Francisco back in '78 (maybe we don't want to know), but I hope for his sake it wasn't journalism if the best he can do now is a bunch of letters to the editor in the RMN.

The only surprise is that he doesn't suggest that Harvey Milk got what he deserved because he was a h******ual.

So let me get this straight--a metal detector is going to stop a determined, dedicated nut-job from shooting his way through said metal detector? Somehow, I don't think that is the case.

I'm not even sure it would slow them enough so that additional help could be arrive before they sought out their intended target.

No matter how hard you try, there is always going to be evil in this world.

why all the up roar at a government building?
why dont they stop all the shootings taking place everyday on the streets? oh I forgot that affects only the public and not the holy elected ones. I say full body armor suits should be provided to all elected officals and worn when they are awake and that will protect them and not make us jump through hoops to go into a government building.

It was suicide by cop plain and simple. If the guy wanted to hurt people, he would have.

The response from "Yeah" was right on. Metal detectors and other types of security theatre only create a false sense of security. The mentally unstable are just as likely to attack, injure and kill the security personnel manning the metall detectors and/or the citizens waiting in line to get into a protected facility. It would appear that the security procedures in place at the capitol at the time of this shooting had the second best result that could be expected in such a situation. More security causes more resentment and results in more incidents of violence.

The response by "Yeah" was right on. The placement of metal detectors will only increas frustration and give an easy target to the mentally ill who are determined to make a name for themselves. What is to prevent them at that pont from shooting the personnel at the metal detector or shooting at the people waiting in line to get through the metal detector? This only creates another target and creates a false sense of security. It would seem that of all possible results, what happened in the latest incident had about the best outcome possible. The only thing that could have happened which would be better would have been if the cop did not have to shoot, but that may not have been possible. More security gives more targets for anger, hostility or other mental problems. There is no way to entirely prevent mentally ill, or otherwise very disturbed individuals from harming others. What has been in place appears to have worked very well.

All comments go against Brian Stuckey and everyone makes far more sense than his; however, peruse the Deicide Corner, with thanks to Stuckey for opening the door: (must defend his right to utter his nonsense to the death):

Deicide Corner: “The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ. To rely on the evidence of the senses and of reason is heresy and treason. Thus the effectiveness of a doctrine should not be judged by its profundity, sublimity or the validity of the truths it embodies, but by how thoroughly it insulates the individual from his self and the world as it is. What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: It must be 'contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.'” -- Eric Hoffer

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