Regarding Alicia Chatkin’s letter “Fox’s Pizza shooting shows need for stronger gun laws” (April 10, TribLIVE): We do not need stronger gun laws in Pennsylvania. What we need to do is get rid of these lily-­livered, soft-hearted judges and prosecutors in our courts. We need the death penalty — I favor
In answer to Patty Satalia’s letter “Republicans are not planning for our well-being” (Dec. 20, TribLIVE): This is a much better thing than the Democrats have. When President Trump left office, the national average for a gallon of gas was $2.39. Meat was selling at a fair price. Today you
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Andrew Ridilla’s letter (“What gun control is really about”) causes me to picture him barricaded in his basement with an arsenal of weapons, ready to defend against an invasion by the U.S. government. In reality, he is, and we are, more in danger going to the supermarket or movie theater, or sending our children to school. Why? Because this is where those who shouldn’t be able to purchase a weapon often strike.
In 2020, 25,000 Pennsylvanians were denied a gun purchase due to a prohibiting factor such as a felony conviction. The only thing that stopped them was a background check.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ net worth is $177 billion. The three heirs to Walmart saw their fortunes grow last year by $40.7 billion. Thousands of Amazon and Walmart employees’ incomes are so low that they qualify for food stamps, meaning that taxpayers subsidize these booming businesses. Think of that we middle-class taxpayers are subsidizing employees of people who not only are billionaires, but have wealth of over $100 billion. That is why Democrats are fighting for an increase in the minimum wage.
Raising the minimum wage would be a massive and much-needed economic stimulus that would directly benefit many of the most vulnerable workers. We must begin to reduce our obscene inequality in wealth and taxes. We must push forward to a system where everyone pays their fair share of taxes, and where worker compensation is fair and just.
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Letter-writer Jonathan Love (“Urge reps to support gun background check bill,” March 9, TribLIVE) makes it naive to sound so petty. All gun bills are a disaster.
In my opinion, anti-gunners aren’t really worried about gun violence, and these small bills are nothing but steppingstones to complete the disarming of the country. If you read and learn more about disarming, you would notice that many socialist communist governments disarmed the citizens to gain absolute power.
If you think House Resolution 8 is so simple, then look up House Resolution 5717. That bill reads to me like total disarmament to prepare our new government to take over.