Husted is disappointing
As many people have noted, Sen. Jon Husted has been flying under the radar for quite some time.
So I was curious as to what contribution he would make as a member of Wednesday’s Senate committee on the Centers for Disease Control.
Well, now I know.
Lisa S. Kalson, Dublin
This is more than cancel culture
Re “Kirk’s slaying raises urgent questions about political freedom,” Sept. 13: It’s interesting that Nicole James talks about the dangers of cancel culture. That she goes from free speech issues, without pause, to their “natural” progression to political assassination is amazing!
That she sees danger in “cancel culture,” but fails to mention the chill to speech due to the White House’s threatening of state and local governments, private companies and public and private colleges and universities with loss of funds if they don’t immediately rid themselves of DEI, is telling.
She talks about Charlie Kirk but mentions not a word about the assassination of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman.
None of these people should have died for their beliefs. No one should be threatened for their beliefs. Stop the labeling and the name calling! It’s just too dangerous in a gun-saturated society.
It’s hard to get there, but we all need to.
Dave Schwendenman, Columbus
We will offer prayers again
Since recent shootings in Minnesota, Washington, D.C., Colorado and Utah — the last using a rifle with a scope — and despite more than 400 school shootings since Columbine and Sandy Hook, the cry for gun control isn’t even offered anymore.
In all the publicity over the assassinations, there is hardly a word except from the same conscientious few — Everytown for Gun Safety, Brady United, Sandy Hook Promise — and they are getting nowhere with our legislators who cannot agree on commonsense gun laws.
We hear guns don’t kill people.
True, but people with guns kill people.
Parkland, Virginia Tech, Dayton, Uvalde, El Paso, Buffalo and recently, Pennsylvania — it is not a matter of “if” in any place in this country. It’s “when.”
It’s not rocket science that the lack of civil discourse from the top down is a major problem and that it is leading to authoritarianism. What keeps happening is the dehumanization of anyone who is “other,” and we are all “other” to someone.
When it happens again, we will offer prayers and move on to the next tragedy when someone reaches for a gun and/or the story will be used to demonize the “other.” Shoot.
Linda Kalette Schottenstein, Bexley
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Jon Husted stance on vaccines dismaying. He’s sowing distrust, confusion. | Letter
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