Obviously when Hawaii lawmakers suspended anti-trust laws to give the Star monopoly ownership of Hawaii’s print media, it became “Editor’s Page: Editor’s Rules.”
But, the Star already cut (censored) the word limit from around 175 with two papers to 150 today. And there are many claims the Star unfairly promotes its Canadian owner’s socialist views. So it seems fair to wonder if cutting the most direct argument from my original 150 word letter above means the Star’s selection of letters, and editing of them, isn’t guided more by a desire for plausible deniability of bias than lack of it.  But pride blinds.  You decide. Cut words follow:
“That danger was well illustrated when Hitler successfully persuaded Germans to allow government to disarm them. Which guaranteed none could later resist his still-armed Nazis. Who forged a brutal Nazi-Fascist-Shinto tyranny that conquered all the world – except America that wouldn’t have been there without that first shot from a citizen-owned rifle”