Letters to the Editor – John Cornyn, nuclear weapons, Second Amendment, inflation – The Dallas Morning News

Local GOP has wrong priorities

Re: GOP votes to censure Cornyn Senators work on federal gun violence bill seen as disloyalty, Wednesday news story.

The Collin County Republican Party voted to censure Sen. John Cornyn over actions the GOP believes is counter to the core principles of the Republican Party of Texas. Those actions? None other than Cornyns work on co-authoring bipartisan gun legislation. Wow!

The U.S. leads the developed world in gun-related deaths. Excluding suicide, almost 21,000 people died in the U.S. from gun violence in 2021. The number of mass shootings, where at least four people were shot, has escalated with 692 incidents in 2021.

Recall recent tragedies of seven killed July 4 in a Chicago suburb, 21 killed on May 24 in Uvalde and 10 killed in a Buffalo grocery store on May 14 all among the almost 400 mass shootings so far in 2022.

Yet the Collin County GOP censured Cornyn for efforts to curb mass gun violence in the U.S.? No wonder democracy in this country is at a tipping point.

Guy Mercurio, Dallas

Re: Chief warns of nuclear annihilation Rising global tensions bring sense of urgency to high-level meeting, Tuesday news story.

The United Nations chief recently warned that humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation. I expect he is right.

Iran is no longer interested in reopening negotiations with the United States to finalize the nuclear agreement that the previous administration scuttled. The leader of North Korea persists in developing nuclear weapons to put on warheads that are getting closer and closer to reaching our West Coast. And of course Vladimir Putin says he will use nuclear weapons if necessary to win the war in Ukraine.

And what is the position of the United States? We arent likely to take the first strike, but we are more than ready to unleash our huge arsenal if someone else goes first.

What can we do, you and I, to interrupt this madness and help reverse the process? In a word: Vote. In Novembers election, vote for political leaders who will work for peace, not war.

Listen closely to candidates who will use their position and influence to ease the tensions of the world, not add to them. Choose those who want to help bring the nations together, not drive them any further apart. Vote for peace, not war.

Roger T. Quillin, Dallas/Lake Highlands

Re: Second Amendment has been hijacked The legal language sprang from the desire to protect states against slave revolts, by Rob Hogue, July 30 Opinion.

Any reasonable reader of the Second Amendment will agree with Hogues op-ed that the U.S. Supreme Courts interpretation of the Second Amendment is not consistent with the original intent of the founders and the authors of our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The Second Amendment clearly ties the right to keep and bear arms to the maintenance of a well-regulated militia and there is no support for the unregulated constitutional carry laws that Texas and other states have now enacted.

Federal laws (dating back to 1795) declare that able-bodied males who are not serving in the organized military are part of the nations unorganized militia and the Constitution says that Congress may provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia.

The U.S. and the states clearly have the constitutional power to require gun training and licensing, to outlaw possession of weapons of war and to do whatever is necessary to have a well-regulated militia.

The gun lobbys advocacy of an unregulated keeping and bearing of arms is, as conservative Republican former Chief Justice Warren Burger said, a fraud on the American people.

Michael Lowenberg, Dallas/Turtle Creek

Just received my TXU Energy bill. Twice what I normally pay (over $1,000) for about the same usage as last year. With Texas sitting on about $40 billion in surplus funds, guess which party will not get my vote in November. It starts with a R!

Wayne Lukaris, Crandall

Since inflation is the No. 1 concern for voters, some polling genius probably helped name the Democrats new bill the Inflation Reduction Act. They claim it will decrease inflation, largely because it decreases the deficit by about $300 billion, even though the deficit reductions wont happen for several years.

If they claim this bill will decrease inflation, can they also admit that their $1.9 trillion spending blowout was a huge inflation increaser?

Jim Mixtacki, Carrollton

If we learned anything from the Uvalde school shootings, it is that even if everyone has a gun, someone still has to be brave enough to rush in and take on the shooter. All those men, all those guns, and no one rushed the shooter. We can provide every teacher a gun, but that is no guarantee that they will use it.

Emilio Rodriguez, Duncanville

Re: Jerry, Jimmy feud rages on Owners surly remarks about Ring of Honor show hostility remains, by Tim Cowlishaw, Tuesday SportsDay column.

Your headline describing the comment Jerry Jones made for his reason he is keeping Jimmy Johnson out of the Dallas Cowboy Ring of Honor as surly was right on target. Jones was doing an amazing imitation of Maj. Frank Burns from the M*A*S*H television show.

Ralph Goins, Coppell

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