Opinion | Letters: What next for Fox News, Tucker Carlson? Same ol’, same ol’
Re: “Will settlement alter conservative media,” April 23 news story
As mayors in cities around the metro Denver region, we see first-hand the impacts that ozone pollution has on our communities. From the negative effects on our children’s health to the disruptive nature of ever more frequent ozone alert days during the summer, we’ve been barreling down the wrong path and failing to enforce the policies that would help turn the ship around. Instead, we’ve put in place half-measures that equate to plugging a leak with a piece of chewing gum.
Our legislature and governor have the opportunity to show us that they are committed to our health and to the well-being of our communities.Disheartened by blocking of weapons banI am astonished, outraged, saddened and deeply discouraged by our political inability to ban the lethal poison of gun violence we perpetrate on ourselves. Military-style assault weapons — that we are literally killing ourselves with — have absolutely no place in our civil society.
It makes me sick at heart and furious that no assault weapons ban was passed. Democratic Rep. Mike Weissman said that “lawmakers needed to reevaluate whether the costs associated with bringing and supporting an assault weapons ban still outweighed the benefits,” according to the story. Marc Snyder has said he had concerns about a ban’s constitutionality. When will the Second Amendment stop being interpreted based on an amendment of the 1700s that was intended for a “well-regulated Militia” to “bear Arms” to protect the nation? This decision, handed down 24 years later, on the anniversary of Columbine, and after hundreds of additional mass shootings, strikes another assault that is beyond understanding.
So, basically, the person with the gun holds the power. And half of our politicians think this is just fine. They seem to think this is what our forefathers had in mind when they wrote the Constitution.Debbie Fleckenstine, LittletonRecently in our local newspaper, letter writers have advocated the repeal of the Second Amendment and suggested creating a new Constitution.
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