Dems, media cling to threads in fight to hurt Trump
After one year of investigating by Robert Mueller and his special counsel into the "possibility" that President Trump colluded with the Russians to influence our presidential election, Mueller remains mute. The mainstream media and Democrats roar on, hanging on with teeth bared, to several Mueller indictments for untimely crimes not linking President Trump to Russia. The House Republicans simultaneously conducted their own investigation and found President Trump did not collude with the Russians. After a year and nothing substantial from Mueller, the mainstream media and the Democrats' story line is changing to, if there is no collusion found between President Trump and the Russians, it is simply because Mueller has not looked hard enough or long enough. They will never believe President Trump won on his own, because that would mean they were wrong.
BECKY SMITH, ROSWELL
Georgia, its police should realize Civil War’s long over
During my many trips up I-95, I often observed vehicles pulled over by Georgia State Patrol, luggage strewn by the side of the vehicle while officers search the occupants’ belongings. To the best of my memory, the occupants were always people of color. I have to believe the same customs prevail on I-75 and I-85. Farther north on I-95, a large Georgia state flag waves proudly in the breeze. I noticed that half the flag is the Star and Bars. Seeing the political ads for Georgia candidates prominently featuring guns and promises to hunt down individuals on national newscasts, it all made sense: Georgia is still fighting the Civil War. News flash: You lost the war, and Lincoln freed the slaves. To those traveling through Georgia: Keep your money in your pocket until you reach a state where all people are treated equally.
RICK MANSFIELD, PONTE VEDRA, FLA.
Tax sales of guns, ammo to harden school security
With the shooting in the Texas high school, there will be repeated calls for teachers to become part-time armed security guards. This should be resisted. We already expect too much of our teachers, asking that they supervise meals, organize transportation, and diagnose and report neglect, sickness and psychological problems. Let us instead hire professional guards to protect our schools. How to pay for this? A tax on all sales, private and commercial, of weapons, ammunition and related supplies – the tax rate to be sufficient to fund three trained, armed, fully equipped guards at every school in the state. In this manner, those who wish for guns to be freely available in our society will have no hindrance in their ownership of weapons. But they would bear the financial consequence of this decision. And our teachers could do what they are trained to do: Teach.
EDWARD THOMAS, DUNWOODY
Where was info on ethnicity of high school dropouts?
Regarding the editorial on Georgia high school graduation numbers (“Graduation boosts prosperity,” Opinion, May 20), your paper failed to mention the demographics of the students who did not graduate. Yet further into the editorial, there is a mention of the graduation rate among African-Americans at Georgia State University. I’m not sure what GSU has to do with the high school graduation rates of African-Americans. Or, is there an implication that the majority of the students who did not graduate high school are African-Americans? How about a follow-up?
DEAN HEINZ, JOHNS CREEK
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