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“Hanes Mall is a posted Gun Free Zone,” the writer of the Aug. 3 letter “Explain” … explains. “‘No guns allowed’ is supposed to result in no shootings. Yet they keep happening. Somebody please explain.”
Sure, I’ll answer the snarky letter.
Businesses put up “Gun Free Zone” signs in hopes of encouraging people to leave their murder tools at home so that everyone there will feel — and actually be — safer.
But they aren’t magic spells. The shootings happen because people ignore the signs. What about that is hard to understand?
He may as well have written: “The U.S. is a ‘no murder zone.’ Yet murders keep happening. Somebody please explain.”
I honestly don’t understand the antipathy some have toward efforts to keep people safe from being shot. Why would any decent human being try to discourage that? I certainly would not be stupid enough to shop at a store that hung a “Gun Encouraged Zone” sign.
Thank you for the July 24 editorial “Too hot for us to handle.” Each day that our government delays action on climate costs untold losses.
If all of this change had happened over a single month instead of over the last several decades, especially the deaths due to climate change, would we be more alarmed? Would our government be so slow to take action?
We must remove climate change from the “political issues” bin and deal with it. Sen. Joe Manchin finally gave way and for whatever reason we are grateful. It would be easy to vote-shame the ones who are refusing to support climate action (Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis come to mind), but with hope, we will soon have a response.
The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act would put a fee on carbon and return the money to households and would be the fastest and most cost-effective response to carbon in our atmosphere. Maybe that will be a part of the response we get. Soon.
Last week we watched Republican senators congratulate each other for blocking health care for veterans — Ted Cruz with an infamous fist-bump. Then we watched them block legislation that would cap the cost of insulin via private insurance. Good God, what are these people for besides tax cuts for rich people? That is their single only accomplishment in the last 10 years.
And they’re talking about sunsetting Social Security and Medicare? Good God, who votes for these people?
Since May 2020, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has indicated that to help prevent coronavirus transmission, filtration in heating and air conditioning systems in schools should be upgraded to MERV-13. CDC was essentially transmitting the standard established by American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). ASHRAE specifically notes that unproven technologies, such as bipolar ionization, should not be used in place of upgrading filtration to MERV-13 or adding standalone filters (HEPA or do-it-yourself versions such as Corsi-Rosenthal boxes).
I personally have advocated for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools to adhere to this recommendation since December 2020. School superintendents Angela Hairston and now Tricia McManus, as well as the Board of Education, have refused to take action. Teachers, staff, parents, students and the public should be asking why.
“Anyone being investigated by the FBI is not qualified to be president of the United States.” — Donald Trump, Aug. 3, 2016. I think we’ve got to take his word for it.
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Just because Trump lies about practically everything, including the election he lost, doesn't mean he's automatically guilty of anything.
The writer of the Aug. 1 letter “Substantive due process,” claiming that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas doesn’t really have it out for same-sex marriage and contraception, reminds me of the conservatives who said they only wanted to return the issue of abortion to the states.
Trump is suffering multiple investigations because his speech and his activities all seem criminal. But his supporters are too disconnected from reality to see that. They like the Trump Kool-Aid.
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There’s an adage that goes something like this: Voting is like driving a car. You use R to go backward, D to go forward.
The July 31 letter “A needle to thread” made some good points about legal recognition for various couplings in marriage.
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