Victor - 8 hours ago

Why do we need to carry guns in the open?? Are we going to have quick draw classes? If you feel threatened, is it ok to shoot? Home protection should be enough.

Trust - 8 hours ago

I knew this young man, he was classmates with my daughter for the last 2 years..he was no thug or ignorant gang member...tragic and I pray for his family and his many friends...he was a good kid!

208228 - 8 hours ago

What is a 13 year old boy doing outside of a bar at 10:30 p.m.? God bless his soul.

217719 - 6 hours ago

Not Normal - I agree with you. Lots of people watching the Thunder of all ages all over town. My condolences to the parents and loved ones of this young boy.

Sometimes you just have to consider the source when you read comments. It's the same people always blithering about how great they are while pointing fingers at everyone else. Point fingers at killers.

Hope the police work hard to get these killers off the streets. Anyone in the car or anyone harboring these criminals is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. No plea bargains. They should play it just as if one oof their young children was shot at a birthday party. Get these killers off the streets.

Lumpy Gravy - 6 hours ago

My condolences to his family. RIP Jordan.

olive s - 2 hours ago

Senseless!!

Shumate - 1 hour ago

"Investigators were not ruling out gang activity."

No kidding. And, what constitutes a gang? It seems to me that if you have multiple people in a car shooting at other people, you've got gang activity.

If you choose to take the Drew Diamond approach (there are no gangs in Tulsa), let's just start calling them Domestic Terrorists.

blindshoe - 1 hour ago

so sorry for your loss

Popeye - 1 hour ago

My sincere sympathy to Jordan's family.

Listen Michelle, little boys have been lying to their moms since time began; it's something most every boy has done at one time or another.

Don't ever be mad at him, this wasn't his fault.

Sarge776 - 16 minutes ago

Another senseless, tragic and violent ending to such a young child. We can easily place blame on everything but the true facts. The only true fact is, that an innocent life was taken by someone who doesn't care about life itself. In today's society, I don't know that there is an answer to stop all the violence that is happening. We surely don't want it to be a total police state and have our rights taken away. We seriously cannot build enough prisons to house all the violent criminals that run rampant through our streets. We call for law and order yet scream that our constitutional rights are being violated. We want our judges to be severe in the punishment of these violent offenders, yet we demand they be removed from the bench when they are being too tough on young criminals. We ask for mentors to help with the growing problem, yet sometimes, child molestors slip through the cracks and destroy those kids lives as well. We want the parents to be tougher on these kids, yet DHS steps in and has them arrested for spanking them. Or worse, the parent/s actually do abuse them. We have teenagers having kids, being raised by grandparents who can't or won't keep a close eye on their upbringing. We say that religion is the reason, either bad or good. It is a topsy-turvy world and either it will get worse, by there being more and more crime running rampant, or heaven forbid, a holocaust type war will wipe out mankind and we will just have to start all over. The answer. I don't think there is one.

myopinion - 3 hours ago

The Republican primary is all but over. It won't be Republicans running negative ads against Romney, it will be Obama. He has no other choice, he can't run on his record; He'll be force to run from it.

ClanJoyWalkSig - 1 hour ago

Hilarious.

And so is the 'toon!

IMO - 1 hour ago

With much of the campaign agenda being determined by super PACs, I think we can expect plenty of negative campaigning from all sides, with little accountability.

No matter which candidate anyone supports, they'll crucify the other for negative campaigning that they may not have any control over.
We've created a free for all environment.

Gold Star Dad - 1 hour ago

Obama doesn't have to create any new ads.

He just needs to play clips of the GOP primary ads and of Romney's opposite stances on the issues.

Eagle 4 - 1 hour ago

The vultures got to Perry real early. Romney ia an Alpha vulture with a bunch of chicken hawks in support.

Good point, Bruce!

Gold Star Dad - 57 minutes ago

Correct except Perry got to himself.

One of the most funny days in the last year was when a bunch of my neighbors pronounced their support for Perry as the next President of the USA.

Hahahaha...

Skeptic - 41 minutes ago

Cardboard cutout Mitt will implode just like all of his fellow GOP President wannabes. Their problem is they were running against President Obama and not for the American people. Plastic Mitt, the vulture capitalist, has proven that he will change his "beliefs" in the direction of the scent of money while squashing the working poor and middle class every time they get in the way.

Good cartoon.

Nazarene Fan - 19 minutes ago

Actually, Mitt does not have to campaign. There are enough groups putting together ant-Obama ads some states will not even have a Romney lever. It will be For Obama or Against Obama, who cares who's the other guy!

Moonbat Slayer - 1 hour ago

between all the unions involved in the airline business and the hundreds of millions they collect from their members they should be the ones "investing" to keep their members employed, not taxpayers

ugh1o1 - 1 hour ago

If American Airlines leaves with their better paying jobs. Tulsa will still have their Right To Work Law and their Republican leaders.

JDH - 53 minutes ago

Is this the part where they kiss us before they screw us?

slowdown - 48 minutes ago

An election is a waste of the taxpayers time and money. AA management is about as bad as it gets. Poorly matched equipment, huge bonuses, and a total inability to compete with SWA. People are not going to vote for this tax. Let AA die and move on. The company may leave the city, but we will always have our guns!

TulsaBeliever - 40 minutes ago

vision 2025 passed because we all got something out of it - community Centers, the BOK Center, etc. Why would somebody with a job vote to have more of their money taken away so somebody else can have a job? Isn't that the job of the private sector and capitalism?

I totally think this sounds selfish, but that is just one question I have on this. And aren't Mike Neal and Smalligo some of the same people that screamed bloddy murder over the stimulus bailouts? (even though they were passed under their hero Georgy Bush) Now they want US to approve another bailout?

I know we can vote for County Commisioner but can we do something about getting rid of the cajun tyrant that rules the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce?

Samtana - 20 minutes ago

Does this proposal have cost effective merit if American closed, say last year?

Anybody?

FF - 18 minutes ago

Dear TW American Airlines is not bankrupt...they are using the bankruptcy law to their advantage...that means that all of their creditors are going to lose money. They took bankruptcy as a business strategy not because they are broke and can't pay their bills. Please stop painting the picture that they are 'bankrupt'. They are not bankrupt, except maybe their corporate board and CEO, they may be morally bankrupt.

With that said, I won't support any tax increase for aerospace infrastructure. Period. It's the wrong idea at the wrong time.

IMO - 2 hours ago

What's wrong with lawfully wedded spouse?
My husband and I have been married for nearly 40 years in a traditional marriage. Allowing same-sex couples the same rights does not change our marriage or lessen our rights.

Flamingo - 47 minutes ago

Amusing letter but still doesn't hide the fact that a union between 2 people who love each other, whatever their sex, doesn't affect anyone or anything else. There used to be a law that blacks and whites couldn't marry because of the negative effect on society and that's been proven false. This isn't any different.

fka - 31 minutes ago

The letter writer's example of jumping the broom harkens back to slavery days when slaves committed to one another. Being "married" did not prevent them from being sold off separately along with their children. And even jumping the broom required the consent of their owner. A quaint example that belies the indignity and injustice of those times. The right to marry was one of the first rights asserted by emancipated blacks. I hope someday soon, the homosexual community will have the dignity of something other than a symbolic union.

fka - 28 minutes ago

As to the 5th paragraph, correct, who cares? In the sixth paragraph the answer is spouse.

Skeptic - 11 minutes ago

Lew, I'm surprised you could raise your knuckles from their ground dragging position long enough to write this letter.

"If my wife doesn't know the answer......" - Lew Harris

Before you revere your wife for her intellectual prowess and ability to explain the world to you, maybe you should check her credentials. She may have a step up from you intellectually, but it appears you are both haven't made it out of the intellectual basement.

Eagle 4 - 7 minutes ago

"Let it Be" by the Beatles lilts through the halls of memory...

grizz - 5 minutes ago

I see that the Owasso air is infecting Collinsville. Just hold your breath, Lew.

myopinion - 7 hours ago

Skeptic, The shooter would never have a license which is necessary for open carry.

1] He's 19
2] He's a felon

When open carry becomes the law in November, Oklahoma will join 44 other states who currently have open carry now.

I think its about time our anti-2 Amendment friends put on their big boy pants. And cast blame where it belongs at the thugs and not law-abiding people.

Lumpy Gravy - 6 hours ago

Embarrassing..

MnM - 5 hours ago

903690.... I would think that those said "thugs" have brought a LOT of money into our State, and are yet another reason for some Oklahoma pride!! Thugs are EVERYWHERE. I am now a Thunder fan!! And yes, thank you so much, Seattle!! We have a great team!!!

MnM - 5 hours ago

Yes, those who live in glass houses and all..... Haters and thugs have to ruin the good times.

Skeptic - 9 minutes ago

That's right, myopinon, all open carry gun carriers will be law abiding citizens who pay their taxes, brush their teeth and only believe in the best in mankind. Yeah, Right!

HSM - 5 minutes ago

He could be Obama's son!

IMO - 1 hour ago

Speculating and judging other people's lives seems to be a national hobby.
If we can't insist that people mind their own business, we should insist that we don't pay them to practice the hobby of interfering in the personal lives of our citizens.
Many who seem obsessed with this practice use religion to justify their actions, which is another subject that doesn't belong in our politics or policies.

Skeptic - 20 minutes ago

Excellent letter......and Amen, IMO!

Eagle 4 - 13 minutes ago

It couldn't be voiced better, IMO - thumbs up. Legislators should be forbidden from basing laws on moralistic assumptions and judgmental condemnations from religious books. It didn't work with Prohibition, Gambling or Abortion and it will never work for sexual choices either.

HSM - 7 minutes ago

"We have no right to make assumptions about some same-sex couples."

Wrong again; it's a free country and we can make biased assumptions about gay people all day long; it's our God-given right as patriotic Americans.

Looks like Skeptic with this letter has finally revealed his true identity, way to go John!

grizz - 2 minutes ago

No, Sybil. Your rights did not come from thin air, they came from a group of liberal separatists.

Nazarene Fan - just now

What is more important than the building blocks of society?

This is a big deal. I wasn't around in the 50's, but from watching the old TV shows, families sure seemed a lot better off. Jim and Margaret Anderson sure had a better family life than Cam and Mitchell's poor kid on Modern Family. The way that homosexual couple is raising Lily is criminal! In fact, they are on their second child in the show because the first one was so damaged just from acting like she had two Daddies.

z1590 - 8 hours ago

She looks old

Barf-Bag - 6 hours ago

She was and they waited a bit before charging her and just arrested on May 6

Lumpy Gravy - 6 hours ago

Bull she was in the paper a week before. I remember the stars.

olive s - 2 hours ago

Cosmetics won't help that face!

Shumate - 1 hour ago

Hopefully, the girl is smart enough to give up the name of her pimp who put her up to this.

RandyD - 8 hours ago

So folks like you kin lern to spel and lern the present perfect tense and
use question marks and so on.

PBG for BA - 7 hours ago

You got it redneck.

hushpuppy - 7 hours ago

Our education system is a result of parents giving up supporting education and turning over their children to a system that requires them to participate in with their support.
Confused you say. So are the schools, we have created children with all the rights and freedoms that they have not earned yet. Our electronic kids have left us in the dust with their, "where's mine" approach to life that we have told them to want. Dam_ the teachers and our responsibilities to help them to teach our kids.
Money helps but it's not the whole answer.

PBG for BA - 7 hours ago

For Randy,
Citizens of Oklahoma, have we not come forth to a cross road where our population demand legislators to cultivate different resources to fund thy education throughout the state? Arise and review thy calendar, periods of prosperity to be followed with despair, variations in student population, approved budgets, tax revenues, bonds, lottery, and government grants, yet we continue to be ranked 46th, 47th, 48th, whom is really counting? Do we define prosperity by not being rank 50?

I think this style of writing to boring.

PBG for BA - 7 hours ago

The gadfly of copy and paste strikes again.

Elusive - 8 hours ago

Use the name of one of your books Jay, Cheap Shot.

seesay - 4 hours ago

In the 90's I used to post in the original Tulsa World online Forum under my own name. That was then; this is now.

In the same way awareness that prospective employers could make viewing your facebook page a condition of employment, so could posting under your actual name (linked to your address in criss-cross directories) stifle free speech, make open discussion of controversial issues foolhardy. It's just how it is, now.

IMO - 1 hour ago

If everyone had to use their own name and photo to express opinions on various subjects, fewer people would comment and many of the comments posted would be postured comments instead of how a person really feels about a subject.

Suppose you don't share the same political opinions of your employer, would that change what you said using your own name?
Suppose your employer is religious and you are not, would that impact what you said in response to many of the ongoing topics?
Suppose your income is derived from selling a product or service, would that keep you from expressing your true feelings on many topics?
If we were no longer able to express ourselves anonymously, many people would stop or pose and the comments would be much less interesting.

Ferris Bueller - 1 hour ago

Keep working on it, Dan. You'll get there.

Elusive - 8 hours ago

Are cell phones really that valuable that it's worth committing armed robbery over?

seesay - 5 hours ago

So you hear a door being kicked in at 2:am but better to sit on hands in hopes maybe no harm will come to you? Uh - I don't think so. You handle it your way, dannysgirl and I'll handle it mine, which makes no allowance for wait/see. Home intrusions in past few years indicate that 'wait/see' = RIP.

rightway - 49 minutes ago

My Glock .9mm in my living room and my Colt .44 Anaconda in the bedroom.

Come on over thug dirt and bring that scatter gun.