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Bishops back gun control

EDITOR: U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops wrote to our U.S. senators and representatives on June 3, 2022, about the massacre of children and teachers in the grade school in Uvalde, Texas. Here’s what the Bishops said: “For many years, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has supported a number of reasonable measures to address the problem of gun violence and continues to support efforts by the U.S. Congress to advance these policies in legislation. It should not be the case that in the United States, a person needs character references to apply for a job but not to ...

Stop selling combat weapons

EDITOR: Mary Calo’s letter to the editor in the June 13 paper hit the nail on the head. I agree with everything she wrote. Why AR-15 rifles are available for the general public is a mystery to me. They are made for combat. This should be a No. 1 priority to solve this problem. No more AR-15s for sale. Age has nothing to do with it. I am also going to write to my people in Congress about this matter and hope others will do the same. Betty Glanville Kingsford

Biden-Harris Administration hurts the nation

EDITOR: White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races and thus should dominate them. I would argue that the Biden-Harris Administration is the embodiment of this ideology. Take for instance their support of Roe vs Wade. At least 19 million U.S. Black babies have been aborted since 1973 and account for 40% of U.S. abortions, according to Planned Parenthood. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen actually said that “eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the ...

Thoughts on Jan. 6 hearings

I have been watching the Jan. 6, 2021, investigation by the House of Representatives Committee. Every word is under a sworn oath. There are people who oppose that sworn testimony and have had hundreds of chances to say their opposing view in various courtrooms across the country, also under oath and also in danger of perjuring themselves should they be lying. None of them have taken that opportunity to present that opposing view. Why will they not speak under oath as the people appearing before the House Committee are doing? I will leave you to think about that and come to your own ...

How much should they be paid?

EDITOR: Recently I read with interest a front page article in the Daily News about the City Council of the City of Iron Mountain considering a ballot measure addressing pay for its City Council members. Several months ago, I also read about the Dickinson County Board of Commissioners grappling with the same issue. How much should our local elected officials be paid for their services while in office? There is no question that they should receive fair compensation for the essential and mostly thankless work that they do while in office. My reason for addressing this issue is to ...

Been there, done that

And now we learn that 19 little kids in a Texas elementary school were slaughtered by a young man using an AR-15. What can one say? Been there, done that. Echoes of Sandy Hook. Echoes of the NRA stranglehold they have on so many greedy Congressmembers. The awful truth is that an AR-15 was the weapon of choice in this and numerous other mass shootings. How many more massacres have to happen before we realize that this weapon should not be available for general purchase? So now we hear endless TV reports about the need to end gun violence in our schools and supermarkets and churches ...