SECOND AMENDMENT
Response to "Cuomo shows how to get gun control laws passed" Opinion, Jan. 27
Maureen Dowd displays her customary abysmal disdain for, and understanding of, the citizens. These are citizens who — despite the best efforts of Dowd and her progressive pals like Cuomo — still revere and grasp the significance of the Constitution. They understand that the founders did not leave us a Second Amendment so that we could hunt.
If these Park Avenue elitists don’t stop pushing their agenda, there is a strong likelihood of a live-fire reenactment of the 1775 events in Lexington and Concord in our future.
DICK BACHERT, NORCROSS
POLITICS
Fresh faces needed
to seek Chambliss seat
A recent AJC piece pictured the politicians likely to run for Saxby Chambliss’s soon-to-be vacant senate seat (“Frustrated Chambliss won’t seek third term,” News, Jan. 26)
I suspect there was a collective groan from readers upon observing these local characters, who seem the same brand of politician we have been stuck with for decades. If the past is any guide, someone new and fresh, without endless political ambitions and ties to lobbyists, will never step forth to suffer through the political games and endless frustrations that are Washington, D.C., today. Maybe, with a push from a surprisingly large number of petition signers, we could give this someone a gentle nudge.
Clark Howard for Senate, anyone?
ERIC SANDBERG, ATLANTA
BENGHAZI ATTACK
Clinton critics taking
words out of context
After examining Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony on Benghazi, her critics apparently realized that their best line of attack was to take her “What difference does it make?” comment out of context by ignoring her next sentence. Once the full context is considered, however, one quickly realizes that Secretary Clinton’s focus is on identifying and solving the problem — whereas her critics’ focus is on scoring cheap political points.
Michael Ramirez (Opinion, Jan. 27) has now joined the ranks of these disingenuous critics with his recent cartoon of Secretary Clinton asking her question while sitting atop the tombstone of a man killed in the attack.
Ramirez does deserve recognition, however, for providing one of the most tasteless distortions of the truth.
RON BROADWAY, CHAMBLEE
ECONOMY
Business aid shouldn’t
hurt U.S. middle class
The recent op-ed by Bernie Marcus (“Job creators need pro-growth policies,” Opinion, Jan. 30) is a good example of the pro-business mindset that has become pervasive in our country: If only the job creators were free from regulation and taxes, all would be right with our economy. This way of thinking has been pushed for the past 30 years — with terrible consequences for average Americans.
Income inequality is at some of the highest levels in our history. CEO pay keeps rising, while the middle class is being squeezed by corporate policies of outsourcing, downsizing and reductions in employee benefits so that profits can be maximized and stock prices, inflated.
When the mindset espoused by Marcus changes to one that promotes the growth of middle-class incomes and purchasing power without the burden of high personal debt, all will be right with our economy.
MIKE HAREMSKI, TUCKER
