Can’t teach
fortitude
I read with amusement, the page A3 C1 article by Karen Brooks about Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McGraw’s fantasy training facility (Nov. 25). How in the world can you train someone to improve their intestinal fortitude? We witnessed the lack of this in almost 400 people in Uvalde who had shooter training!
My suggestion is, spend that $1.2 billion on bulletproof shields with a built-in gun in it to take out these unstable people. A safe way for the police officer to eliminate the shooter. Another suggestion is to ban all these fast-firing guns; they are not needed to hunt game animals. If a hunter needs a gun like these, they shouldn’t be in the hunting field!
Bill Williams
Palmview
MAGA
defended
To those who declare MAGA a cult, it only means Make America Great Again. Radicals are frenzied to slander this movement. MAGA is the movement that loves America, pure and simple — hardly an enemy.
The leftist-infused “ultra” must be rejected by MAGA solely on its origin, which came from Joe Biden, who keeps displaying his hate by punishing the 76 million Americans who did not vote for him.
His promise to unify America is the “Big Lie.”
They are the America apologists who become rich off Americans’ blood and sweat, then becoming corruptively rich and hateful.
Their “Big Lie, QAnon, fascists, cult, morons” is their own self-projection of who they really are. No need for conservative retaliation because they’re projecting themselves every time.
Imelda Coronado
Mission
Rangers
defended
This is in response to Ruben Navarrette’s commentary: “Real Texas Rangers deserve no place in baseball” dated Dec. 8
Mr. Navarrette said, “For their sins, the Rangers came to be known — among Mexicans — as ‘los diablos tejanos’ (‘the Texan devils’).”
And yet our Texas Department of Public Safety website doesn’t reference “sins” (Navarrette’s word) of the Texas Rangers. It says the term “Texan devils” was given to them by the Mexicans because the Rangers fought with such ferocity against them during America’s war with Mexico:
“The Rangers fought with such ferocity in the war that they came to be called “Los Diablos Tejanos” — the Texas Devils.”
One wonders why Mr. Navarrette used the word “sins” when writing about the Texas Rangers. That sounds like a word the socialist Howard Zinn might have used when writing his far-left-wing, distorted history of America in his book “A People’s History of the United States.” Unfortunately this book of lies, truths and half-truths is still being used today to teach our children.
Perhaps Mr. Navarrette is not aware that there were many Hispanic and Native American Texas Rangers beginning in the early 1830s. Many of them are listed by name in the website texasranger.org.
I find it interesting that Navarrette blames the Texas Rangers for the slaughter of our children in Uvalde on May 24. And that is the reason he wants the Texas Rangers to change the name of their baseball team.
Darrell Williams Sr.
McAllen
