Letters: The right to bear arms; Who gets COVID funds?
The right to bear arms
The Second Amendment to the Constitution states, “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” The Pennsylvania State Guard is the official Pennsylvania militia. They have the right to keep and bear arms, as do state and local police. Under their aegis the state is considered secure. There is no right or need for others to keep and bear arms for protection of the state. Hunters need to be licensed and are. AR-15 rifles have no place in any of this.
Who gets COVID funds?
I read that Gov. Tom Wolf wants to give everyone $2,000 out of the state COVID fund, meanwhile I sit here looking at a $125,000 bill from my COVID stay in the hospital. They tell me all the COVID money has dried up and I can make payments. I have insurance but it only paid part of the bill. I am not complaining, just wonder why the discrepancy.
Thank you to the staff at Mount Nittany who did a great job.
Safety should top priority list
USA government priorities:
1. Stop spending my tax dollars on healthy non-American citizens then providing them a lifetime free ride on welfare with better health care benefits than hard-working American citizens can provide their own families.
2. Secure our borders until COVID is under control.
3. Create immigration policies requiring an application stating the individual’s current identification, education and a criminal background check. There’s no need to stop immigration into our country but we can deny access to those individuals lacking the qualities or desire to become a working, contributing, taxpaying citizen of this country.
4. The most critical, safety for our children at school. Now that we’re not wasting money on non-contributing immigrants and the new immigrants coming to our country are actually contributing to our tax structure, we should have the necessary funds to protect every school with armed security trained specifically to counteract any attempt to harm innocent children and their teachers. These security personnel will need enough firepower to equal the threat. Obviously a whistle and a can of mace is not going to be a great enough deterrent to stop these heartbreaking, unnecessary deaths.
How can a country this great staffed with so many well-paid, educated and intelligent politicians be so unproductive and continually demonstrate senseless and uneducated tendencies?
Hardening buildings not the answer
The Republican leadership — Cruz, Trump, Abbott — say we need to arm the teachers, put fences around the school, and lock the doors. I assume that means they the also think we need to arm the nurses, the doctors, and the grocery clerks; that we need to lock the doors to the hospitals and grocery stores.
Think of the absurdity — American citizens living in an armed camp.
What separates us from the rest of the world? Do we have more crazy people, more angry people? No, we have more instant access to weapons of war than nearly anywhere else in the world. We live in culture that celebrates a myth of that the gun makes right.
Isn’t it time to grow up? The movie myths are fantasies.
Our Declaration of Independence demands the right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Our Constitution aspires to “form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty...” Hardening schools, hospitals, grocery stores, and dance venues from the use of weapons of war has nothing to do with our founding ideals.
Where are Rep. Thompson, Rep. Keller, Sen. Toomey on our freedom from assault, on ensuring domestic tranquility? Nowhere, they support the Republican leadership where the unlimited access to all forms of guns is simply more important than general welfare.