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NWS might work
for A’s ballpark
Now that Harmony is again to sq. one on the Naval Weapons Station mission (“Council votes to half methods with developer,” Web page B1, Jan. 29), the Metropolis Council ought to instantly contact the Oakland A’s about constructing a brand new ballpark there. The pluses are: BART, higher climate and open, undeveloped house.
Cliff Jursa
Hercules
Comedian is insensitive
to police killing
I’m appalled to learn this week’s “Candorville” comedian (Web page 2, Jan. 29).
This week’s Sunday printing was notably tasteless throughout a weekend when our complete nation is coping with one more legislation enforcement-initiated killing. I discover nothing humorous about this explicit day’s comedian, and the Sunday comics editor ought to have had the sense to intervene and “do that the straightforward manner.”
Subsequent time, please use a modicum of foresight and sensitivity to your readership previous to printing. Such consideration could be appreciated by not solely me but in addition all the physique politic.
Evan Moss Evan
Pleasanton
We should urge passage
of gun management acts
I’m deeply involved and grieving together with the remainder of our nation over the most recent explosion of mass shootings.
I urge my representatives to do the whole lot they’ll to move the Assault Weapons Ban, launched by Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. David Cicilline. As Sen. Feinstein factors out, we’re solely 24 days into 2023 and the USA has seen:
• 39 mass shootings;
• 70 lifeless;
• 167 wounded;
• 5 mass shootings in California;
• 26 lifeless in California.
We have to take motion now to move the Assault Weapons Ban and the Age 21 Act. These mindless killings should finish. Our nation is relying on its elected officers to do the whole lot of their energy to stop these horrific tragedies.
Nicole Raeburn
Richmond
US promise denied by
misuse of Structure
“Many People pessimistic that gun violence will decline,” Web page A3, Jan. 30:
The start of our Structure is a promise of blessings given us: “We the individuals of the USA, in Order to type a extra excellent Union, set up Justice, guarantee home Tranquility, present for the frequent protection, promote the final Welfare, and safe the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves.”
If an understanding or use of our Structure is opposite to this, it’s a misunderstanding or misuse. Instance: The Second Modification provides a collective proper to a militia to bear arms. It doesn’t give a person proper to an individual to bear arms. The court docket misconstrues the Second Modification.
By its rulings, the court docket is complicit within the assault weapon mass murders and gun violence in our nation. The militia doesn’t do that. The person gun proprietor does this. The court docket deprives these lifeless of gun violence the promised blessings — justice, tranquility, liberty.
Edward McCaskey
Dublin
It’s time for us
to chop the GOP
Effectively, I see the GOP needs to chop Social Safety and Medicare once more to provide the wealthy and the firms one other tax break.
