This is Viewpoints for Friday, Sept. 4, 2015
Everyone else
Donald Trump has the angry white people “silent majority” vote locked up. Now let’s see how he does with the rest of the electorate.
— William D. Carter
Bonaire
Disarmament
It is not surprising that the emotional public is seeking gun control, but the president? The only time, in my opinion, is only after all of our enormous criminal element has been disarmed. What is your opinion?
— Joe Hubbard
Macon
Incomplete database
As an advocate against violence except in self defense, I find it unbelievable how vulnerable law-abiding citizens are to unjustified violence. Many of the movie theaters are beginning to provide better security. You think this would have been done after the first shooting incident. When you apply for a job, references are checked. When you apply for an apartment, previous landlords are contacted. But when you go to purchase a gun, a database containing information from a detailed background check does not exist.
Those passengers were blessed on that train in France. Two of the men had military training which helped to save lives. They came home as heroes.
— Renee Lee
Macon
Response
My only response to Rinda Wilson’s rather lengthy piece against abortions was to write a rather large check to Planned Parenthood with a memo requesting that my donation be only used for abortions. How sweet it was. One million annually and still going strong.
— Frank W. Gadbois
Warner Robins
Who is consolidation helping?
I’ve lived within the city limits of Macon my entire life. Before consolidation, when I called Parks and Recreation about a large shrub on the right of way blocking the view of traffic, the problem was taken care of within a week. Now it takes months. I called and sent an email to Macon-Bibb customer service. Yet, I’m still waiting and the shrub is getting bigger and bigger.
In July 2013, I requested a replacement for my 25 year old garbage cart. I’ve followed up several times via telephone, Click-Fix and an email to contact@maconbibb.us. Now over two years later, I’m still waiting for a new garbage cart.
— S. Early
Macon
Strange lot
Liberals are a strange lot. They insist that the alarming murder rate is because of guns. Fact is the trigger finger of these deranged individuals is activated by malfunctioning brains. If more was blamed on the alarming decrease in mental health facilities then the problem could be properly addressed.
Same with the issue of who should live and who should die. The left-sided clueless believe the death penalty is inhumane and those who have committed crimes of the most barbaric and unspeakable sort deserve our help and understanding. This same bunch then subscribes to the belief that fully formed babies with beating hearts and functioning brains should be butchered and their body parts sold. Several videos exist of Planned Parenthood employees discussing this over lunch and laughing and having a big old time as they recount the carnage and plans to profit from it.
I write this because of the liberal media’s equally strange propensity for not seeing fit to report it. Some liberals are just dumb and enjoy being that way. Most others have no original thoughts and are therefore dependent on the nanny state for their entire vision and existence. It would be nice, however, if they could see fit to let the little ones live as some would grow up to be Democrats.
— Tommy Parker
Macon
Who is buying?
With the baby boomers retiring and downsizing too, who is going to buy all of those larger homes? I know we are in the cycle of change but the tremendous buying of gold and silver is fading, too. Since these along with automobiles represent our largest capital purchases, what’s to be done to off set the change?
— Carolyn Effie
Macon
A better tomorrow?
God has blessed America and because of it America has blessed the world because America built its foundation upon belief and trust in God’s biblical revelation of truth anchored upon the life, death and resurrection of his son Jesus Christ. Truth must not only be known, it must be proclaimed and lived. Will God bless America and continue to bless the world because of America’s obedience and love of God?
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance.” Psalms 33:12. This included Israel and all nations who put their faith, trust, obedience and livelihood in God, the creator of the world.
Is America a more Godly honored and blessed nation today than yesterday? What will it be like tomorrow?
— The Rev. Richard Aultman
Byron
‘Slippery slope’
With appreciation to Rinda Wilson for her letter in the Aug. 27 Telegraph: At 70, I am among the youngest Americans who graduated from American public schools in which prayer was legal and widespread. Today’s 60-year-olds were in the second grade when the Supreme Court outlawed prayer in American public schools June 25, 1962, and most of them who attended public schools probably do not remember hearing a prayer in school. Today’s 40-year-olds could have been legally killed in their mothers’ wombs if they had been “inconveniently conceived.” Sound like a slippery slope to you? It does to me.
— Bill Pitts
Centerville
This story was originally published September 3, 2015 at 9:34 PM with the headline "This is Viewpoints for Friday, Sept. 4, 2015 ."