JOHNNY KOONSE: Thanks, ma'am, for the budding anarchist [View all]

[Harry Monroe]

This letter to the editor in today's edition of the Biloxi/South Mississippi Sun-Herald left me simply speechless. Nothing more to say:



Thanks, ma'am, for the budding anarchist

The latest school tragedy now has many of us wondering why would the mother of a teenager buy and own such guns?

While you're wondering that, wonder this, from my own personal experience: a few years ago, I attended an auction in Gulfport and one of the items was box full of old books.

I glanced through them and one title caught my eye, "The Anarchist's Cook Book." I thumbed through it and was stunned to see that it told how to create weapons from scratch, many of which had been used in the Russian Revolution, such as the Molotov cocktail. It also showed how to grow plants of marijuana and other narcotics. I decided I would bid on it to get it out circulation, but somehow got distracted and a woman in her 40s got it.

I approached her, offering to buy it, but she declined.

I said, "You know that's not a cookbook for food, don't you?" She said she knew what it was, so I asked why she wanted it. She said, "I'm getting it for my teenage son!"

I congratulated her for being such a good mom and left. So the kids are not always a full blame.


JOHNNY KOONSE

Long Beach


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