More on proposed gun legislation
Dear Editor:
The recent Fed-X shooting seems to be the current crisis for gun more control, who failed, the FBI, the local police, the local District Attorney, so much for the red flag law in that state. If you really want to stop this then ban mental people from buying a gun! Police: FedEx shooter legally bought guns used in shooting - ABC News (go.com) For years, people that tried to kill themselves, some with a gun, others stopped taking their medicine, or are heavy drug users. I cannot count how many times we took people to the mental hospital in Las Vegas, New Mexico, or Albuquerque. In some case these doctors would re-evaluate these folks and make us turn right around and bring them right back. The few times they did keep some for a short time, they got them back home and that was it. Until they make every doctor, psychiatrists, and or social worker report people who should not have guns this will never stop. It will be on the news every night so the left-wing media can help take our guns away, increase their ratings and pat themselves on the back for convincing millions of viewers we do not need guns even with riots and burning still going around the country, just like they told us who to vote for in the last election. Which brings me to Congress Woman Maxine Waters of California who likes to stir people up to protests and commit violence: Watchdog says Maxine Waters inciting 'mob violence,' presses ethics complaint | Fox News. She’s now gone to Minneapolis and said: Maxine Waters Tells Protesters to ‘Stay in the Street,’ Be ‘More Confrontational’ If Chauvin Acquitted (yahoo.com). I cannot say what has been happening lately is good for what I did for most of my life or those still in my profession, but the harder you are on us the less we will do. One thing that stuck in my mind is cops are regular people created about 191 years ago by Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minster of England around 1829, Robert Peel - Wikipedia. They had lots of crime and rioting even back then. He said, in every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people”, sounds like Antifa, BLM, Proud Boys, or Oath Keepers, or some in congress. “Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs”, sounds like the left-wing media, and democrats. “The police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence, guess we are supposed to help the police, and we never seem to learn from our past?
Signed:
Mr. Harry L. Hall
USAF Vet Retired Sheriff Lt.
Encourage each other
Dear Editor;
Perhaps it is time for us to acknowledge the organizations, businesses and people in our area that do a great job.
One of them is the Grants Public Library. I have used their services for many years. The staff is exceptional in their helpfulness, kindness and concern for each patron. The new library is beautiful with ongoing improvements and expanding collections of books [written and audio], DVD’s and computers. Even during the COVID restrictions, they have provided curbside printing, faxing, notary and check out books. Their website and facebook provides stories and activities for children, community information, their catalog of materials and other resources. They have an outdoor book exchange, free library materials and a sharing closet that has provided warm clothing during the winter, food and toiletries.
As Grants reopens, it is a lovely place of light, learning and peace in an often dark world.
Joan Klonowski, Grants, NM
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