Brave vets need a military Joshua
Let us take the time to dwell on how our active military and veterans are being treated and what sacrifices they make so we may remain safe here at home. This day and age, due to live television, we actually watch the daily battles being fought overseas. We witness the horrific conditions and situations our troops face and actually see their blood spilled. The wounded return home to a Veterans Administration mired in scandal and no one being held accountable and a public that doesn’t care enough to demand our Congress make sure these brave young heroes receive the very best possible care. Why not ask Congress to provide the funds, whatever it takes, to provide this care? There would be plenty of money available if we would stop sending foreign aid to our enemies. Also, Washington refuses to believe we are in a holy war, but when you have a group like ISIS determined to kill all Christians and destroy our nation in the name of Allah, you can’t call it anything else. We need a biblical Joshua to lead us through and out of this crisis. Gene O. Wagner Sr.
Guns should be tightly regulated
Between 2002 and 2012, 28,000 children and teens in our country were killed by guns. In other words, a child’s life was taken by a bullet because of homicide, suicide or accidental shooting every four hours. Republican Rep. Mike Harrison and other determined gun enthusiasts in the Tennessee state legislature refuse to accept that most Tennesseans do not want guns in parks and on playgrounds and continue to fight against gun regulation of any kind, any place. Harrison’s stated reason for re-introducing his bill is that gun “permit holders are confused about which parks are off limits.” Should they even be granted gun permits if they are incapable of understanding where they can legally carry guns and those safe places where guns are illegal and children and adults are safe from gunfire? In thinking of all the reasons guns should be tightly regulated, it occurs to me that Harrison and people like him should have to justify deregulating them and that such deregulation defies all common sense. Harrison and those like him represent the death-dealing political power of the National Rifle Association, not the people’s freedom to safely enjoy parks and playgrounds. Faye Walter Sewanee, Tenn.
No German checks for VW workers