Bill Rounds

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“Electron-spin-resonance transistors for quantum computing in silicon-germanium heterostructures” should not be discussed by those who do not understand the subject.

Likewise, those who do not understand the science of ”more guns, less crime” should not discuss gun control.

A prime example of our politician’s ignorance of the subject matter can be seen in the recently passed “bump stock” legislation. Most trees in the woods can supply a limb that can be used with a conventional gun stock to act as a “bump stock.”

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Dowels from the local hardware store can also be used. With internet instructions, a belt loop can serve the same purpose.

Maryland recently passed a “bump stock” law that included a provision that could punish those owning a repeating rifle and a can of oil.

Interpreting the law as written, they are potential felons. Have these people lost their status as “law-abiding” citizens?

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If our politicians are as ignorant of the things I know little about as they are about a topic I have been closely following for more than 50 years, we face hard times ahead.

Medicare is an example. I know little about health insurance and less about health care (which I do know are two different subjects, even though the politicians try to intermix them).

However, it is obvious what we have just tried (Medicare) is not going to work. It is unconstitutional and we cannot afford it.

I don’t understand economics. I have been told our economy hangs by a thread at the whim of the (unelected) Federal Reserve.

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I don’t understand how our politicians can allow this to be. An economy that continues to spend much more money than it “makes” cannot stay solvent, can it?

Many years ago, my father told me, “Wisdom is attained when one realizes how much one does not know.” It took me years to understand his point.

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Now I pray our politicians try to attain some wisdom. Or at least swap some of their ignorance for enlightenment.

Bill Rounds lives in Delmar, Delaware.