PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Putting Guns In The Wrong Hands

Now our government is excited about gun control.

There is some logic in that thinking and a part of the goal is to keep automatic and assault guns out of the hands of the mentally deficient.

The Fast and Furious program dreamed up and promoted by the U.S.

government provided such guns to drug smugglers and hoodlums. As a result, one of those guns was used to kill our own border patrol agent. How many more crimes were committed with those guns is unknown because we simply do not know who has the rest of the guns.

You can bet they were not used for squirrel hunting.

The first mental proficiency test should be given to those who dreamed up and executed the Fast and Furious program. If the results of the test should reach “high-grade moron,” they obviously are cheating and the test should be given by someone competent.

The government has continued to stonewall and has never disclosed those responsible. Is it any wonder that our legislators get such low marks?

DICK SELLON

Rogers

SOME THINGS DON’T MIX Go Eureka Springs. I remember reading that in a letter some years ago about an ordinance that was enacted to allow same-sex couples to register as partners, how Christians were being unfair, nontolerant, noncompassionate hypocrites about it, encouraging others to boycott Eureka Springs because of it.

Wow. Just look at what “the Lord Jesus Christ” has done. I guess people who should have boycotted didn’t enjoy leaving The Great Passion Play and seeing Sodom and Gomorrah all over town. It’s not “Go Eureka Springs.” It’s “Gone.”

The Great Passion Play and Sodom and Gomorrah just don’t mix.

PATSY RECIO

Fayetteville CONTEXT MISSING Did you know they smoked cigarettes in the Old Testament days?

Look it up in Genesis 24:64. Or the apostles rode in cars? Acts 2:1.

Way out of context you say? Yes, you are correct.

I am a former alderman for Tontitown. I feel compelled to make some comments.

Sunny Hinshaw used her “Tontitown News” email to get elected to the Tontitown City Council.

I believe she and Rhonda Doudna have either knowingly, or unknowingly, used facts out of context.

The “bully,” as they call him, does present facts and lets the facts speak.

Tontitown needs for folks to get past the negative emotions and backstabbing. The council needs to look at all the facts available and work together for the good of the town. The silent majority of the citizens are not getting what they deserve.

The four gentlemen referred to as the “fantastic four” I have seen (or at least the three I served with) have looked past the emotions, looked at the facts and voted for what was in the best interest of the majority of the citizens. At times this caused them to have personal losses.

The town needs a mayor who brings all together for the common good for all. I certainly hope the “fantastic four” continue to do good things and ignore those who use facts way out of context.

DAVID BOLINGER

Springdale

Opinion, Pages 5 on 01/21/2013

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