Re: “Attitudes on refugees, then and now,” Nov. 29 letters to the editor.
I appreciate that you published a cross-section of readers’ opinions on refugees. I am heartened to hear how many people are open and generous, and I need to be reminded that some of my fellow citizens tend to have a more fearful outlook on life. Though I don’t share their fear, I have to admit that my 66 years of life in the U.S. have been good. Maybe they have had scary lives.
I do find it ironic that Coloradans have experienced domestic terrorism, all the way back to the Ku Klux Klan, yet they never seem to factor that into their fears. Have we in Colorado accepted that mass shootings are just another fact of life in America and we don’t count that as terrorism? Is it because our domestic terrorists look like us that we don’t think they are scary? Is a Syrian refugee really scarier than that crazy guy who should have never been allowed to buy a gun?
A. Lynn Buschhoff, Denver
This letter was published in the Dec. 7 edition.
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