Another mass shooting in Kansas City ruins the Chiefs’ victory party, leaving one dead and over 20 injured. Calls for stricter gun control measures gain momentum.
People take cover during a shooting at Union Station during the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVIII victory parade Wednesday in Kansas City, Missouri. One woman died, and more than 20 people were injured.Jamie Squire
From Our Post and Courier Readers
Wednesday was the sixth anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and educators were slaughtered.
Also Wednesday, the victory party for the Kansas City Chiefs was ruined by another mass shooting, leaving one woman dead and more than 20 people injured.
These attacks also affect the families of the victims as well as the survivors who likely will deal with post-traumatic stress disorder.
In the first 45 days of this year, there have been about 50 mass shootings.
This savagery has become so commonplace that we are no longer surprised.
Who in Charleston can forget the massacre at Emanuel AME Church in 2015?
And what is our South Carolina General Assembly doing to help? Legislators passed an open-carry law and are now about to make it easier for gun owners to carry firearms in public without training.
For me, this issue is nonnegotiable.
I urge others, especially mothers, to join me in refusing to support any candidates who don’t support sensible gun policies.
JOAN CHARDKOFF
Daniel Island
Council bedazzled
I really believe that our Charleston County Council is just bedazzled with big-ticket projects, regardless of whether they make any sense or are even fiscally sound.
Any amount of money is inconsequential now that council members are on their $2.4 billion high that may be gotten through a ridiculous referendum.
It makes those million-dollar projects look like pocket money.
They seem to pick and choose projects regardless of the importance to the overall sensibilities and needs of Charleston County.
There are plenty of immediate needs, but the latest potential for spending money on the development of property in a flood zone area, while Morrison Drive sinks in the ocean, seems foolish and should not be one of them.
Prone to flooding? No problem.
Drainage ? No problem.
Rising seas? No problem.
It’s only a few million dollars.
SEYMOUR ROSENTHAL
Mount Pleasant
Weigh candidates
I was raised in a hardworking family of seven with modest means.
My parents encouraged us to abide by three rules:
- First, to work hard and take pride in what we did.
- Second, to treat others as we would like to be treated and be respectful.
- Third, to pray, be thankful for what we had and help others.
If you compare Nikki Haley and Donald Trump while applying these principles, which one do you believe is the best candidate?
Who will work most effectively for all Americans?
Who treats others with respect and follows the golden rule?
Who demonstrates good moral character and Christian principles?
Think seriously about what is best for our great country as a whole and not your personal preference.
These two candidates have told you who they are. Pay attention.
LOREN D. VAN OORDT
Johns Island
Petigru’s point
I could not resist the temptation to join in on the fray regarding the cause of the War Between the States.
Michael Trouche and Gary Kunkelman both made very valid historical points in their commentaries.
Please allow your readers to consider James Louis Petigru’s response in 1860.
Petigru, a South Carolina College graduate in 1809 and state attorney general from 1822-48, is buried in St. Michael’s churchyard.
His home and law office still stand at 8 St. Michael’s Alley.
It will be difficult to beat his thoughts regarding the cause of the war, as he famously stated: “South Carolina is too small for a republic, but too large for an insane asylum.”
The National Park Service stated, “Although he criticized the Confederate government, Petigru mourned Confederate battlefield losses, especially those in which South Carolinians fell.”
The Park Service, part of the U.S. Department of Interior, also noted he said, “The universal applause that awaits on secessionists and secession has not the slightest tendency to shake my conviction that we are on the road to ruin.”
N. WINFIELD SAPP
Mount Pleasant
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