Of course WA Democrats are after our guns. Their real target is the 2nd Amendment | Opinion
They’re after our guns
Re: “Washington Democrats are trying to cut gun-related deaths again. Enough is enough!”
Finally, News Tribune columnist Matt Driscoll has come to his senses!
Three questions: First, who actually believes that? Second, why do law-abiding gun owners need to pay the consequences for gun violence and deaths caused by drug dealers and gangs when Washington state gives them a free pass to commit crimes? Third, and perhaps most importantly, how does the multitude of overly restrictive current Washington laws and proposed bills not disproportionately impact all minorities?
Very soon, only the most affluent citizens will be able to freely exercise their Constitutional rights. Unless, of course, the true objective is to totally disarm all citizens and eliminate the Second Amendment altogether.
Nicholas Stagliano, Tacoma
What about the space lasers?
Thank you for the wonderful recent Republican opinion columns in the newspaper, including:
George Will’s incomprehensible rants about apocalyptic government overreach due to funding methods for something called the CFRB, which spends 0.02% of federal expenditures.
State Senator Jeff Wilson’s rants against Senate Bill 5209, which would require Washington residents to vote. Like all Republicans, the last thing Sen. Wilson wants is everyone to vote so we actually govern by majority will. After all, that would be government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” Who wants that?
Jason Mercier’s rants against a Washington state capital gains tax for the super-wealthy. Mercier makes more absurd statements about taxation than I have space to report here, but clearly, he is still enraptured by 40-year-old trickle-down economics nonsense. In his delusional world, wealth inequality doesn’t exist and the top 1% haven’t siphoned trillions from the rest of us. God forbid they help fund the state.
The News Tribune Opinion section missed its opportunity to capture all Republican thinking: there should have been columns about Jewish space lasers and the Democratic party’s cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles. Maybe next time.
Michael Thompson, Tacoma
Child Protective Services
Re: “Tacoma toddler suffered abuse called beyond ‘horrific.’ Mother is charged with murder”
In a recent edition of The News Tribune readers were informed of the horrific death of the 3-year-old son of Ivey Marie Lewis. While the boy has not been publicly identified, according to the story he had allegedly been in foster care and returned to his mother six months earlier by Child Protective Services.
It is time for CPS to reevaluate its policy of returning children to their biological parents when there has been a history of drug addiction and criminal behavior. Drug addiction often results in demonic behavior with numerous relapses. This child and others are the victims of a society plagued by drug abuse. If there is a shortage of social workers to monitor these children then they must be left in foster care situations that have proven to be safe.
How many million-dollar lawsuits do we have to endure before future children are protected from this insanity?
Sheila Marston, Tacoma
Tax the rich? We already do
I am always confused when someone proposes that the top 1% in our nation do not pay their fair share in taxes. What does that mean? Are they asking for a flat tax where everyone pays the same percentage in all taxes?
Some hope that we will have a progressive state tax next. That is what we have now when it comes to property taxes. The better piece of property, the more you pay in property taxes. The same is true with sales taxes.
We don’t need new state or Federal taxes. We need to spend our tax revenue more efficiently. I would vote for a federal flat tax so everyone has skin in the game. Let us water what we want to grow and starve what we don’t want in the way of waste, fraud and abuse.
Douglas Pratt, Gig Harbor