Destroying the land of opportunity
To the editor:
Shaundell Newsome has a very strange idea of living in a “proverbial dream” (Monday letter). Unfortunately, I believe more than 50 percent of the people in this country would disagree.
In the past four years, President Barack Hussein Obama has, with the help of other Democrats and the liberal media, intentionally destroyed more lives than anyone in this country’s history. In doing so, he spent and wasted trillions of dollars, putting us on the verge of bankruptcy. At the same time he converted the most successful and envied capitalist land of opportunity into another of the socialist failures that I came here 50 years ago to escape.
I think the author has been drinking too much of the Obama brainwashed Kool-Aid. Until the advent of Mr. Obama, about four years ago my wife and I felt we were living in our utopia, but our lives and country have been destroyed and aren’t likely to recover to their previous level in our lifetime.
HERBERT BURR
LAS VEGAS
A mental health problem
To the editor:
The Tuesday account of Las Vegas police Lt. Hans Walters shooting and killing his wife (a former police officer) and his son and then setting fire to their Boulder City home before taking his own life with his gun underscores the mental health component of the current gun control debate.
Most would agree police departments conduct exhaustive background checks, screening tests and training before authorizing officers to carry and deploy firearms. Yet in this story his colleagues commented: “He didn’t seem out of the ordinary at all”; “Cops are pretty intuitive. They can tell when something’s wrong”; and “He seemed totally fine.”
Yet two days later something had gone horrifically wrong, mentally, to result in such a tragedy. The focus of the gun control debate should center on the specifics of mental health issues resulting in all violent behavior.
JOHN EDWARD JORDAN
HENDERSON
Lawmaker arrested
To the editor:
Assemblyman Steven Brooks, D-North Las Vegas, was arrested on suspicion of threatening to kill incoming Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick because he didn’t get the committee assignments he wanted.
This is all the more reason why our country needs stricter gun control laws.
For if we can’t trust lawmakers to act responsibly, who can we trust?
KENNETH L. ZIMMERMAN
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIF.
Small type
To the editor:
A small complaint, but hopefully an easy one to fix:
As you plan what goes where, please, I beg you, do not make the daily crossword puzzles any smaller. Even with my glasses, it’s hard to see.
I have been your customer since early 1976. I made it to 86 this year!
MARJORIE A. COBB
LAS VEGAS
Who’s next?
To the editor:
Every year, when the anniversary of Roe v. Wade rolls around, the same question pops into my mind: Who are the religious zealots who make up the anti-abortion crusade going to come after next if (heaven forbid) they overturn Roe v. Wade?
And there they were, 40 years on, around the country protesting a woman’s right to do with her own body as she pleases. These anti-abortion fanatics (What else can you call someone who tries to force their will on others for 40 years?) have already hijacked the Republican Party and pretty much are the Tea Party.
So who will these white religious folks set their sights on next? Brown-skinned immigrants, our gay brothers and sisters, or maybe even liberals?
RON LOWE
NEVADA CITY, CALIF.
