Airport open carry terrorizes others
Responding to James Cooley, what does your walking around with an AR-15 firearm at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport have to do with protecting yourself or the Second Amendment (“How guns became legal at airport,” Metro, June 4)? What makes you think any of us, and the thousands of other national and international travelers at the world’s busiest airport every day, shouldn’t take you for a crazed killer or terrorist?
We in the gun sense movement don’t want to take your guns away. We just don’t want to be terrorized. There are, after all, other amendments besides the Second. And each one has reasonable restrictions established both by a standard of common-sense consideration for the welfare of all of us, and legal precedents set by the highest court in the land. GunSense Georgia is standing up to the gun lobby and gun lobby-backed lawmakers who are perpetuating this madness. They and you have gone too far.
KATHRYN GRANT, CO-FOUNDER, GUNSENSE GEORGIA
TSA another waste of taxpayer dollars
What a surprise that another government program has resulted in billions of taxpayer dollars being wasted for a program with a failure rate of 95 percent (“TSA screeners missed mock bombs, weapons,” News, June 3). Add this to the long list of failed government programs, the most recent being Obamacare and dating back to the Democrats’ “War on Poverty.” If government were evaluated the way the market evaluates private businesses, authors of bad programs would be out of a job and would likely be sued by their shareholders. What will it take for America to wake up and realize Ronald Reagan was right: “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem”?
DOUG LOCKER, DECATUR
Jesus gave other travel instructions
The Rev. Creflo Dollar still wants a Gulfstream G650 Jet, the most expensive private jet in the air (“Dollar ministry’s eye is still on the $65M Gulfstream,” Metro, June 4). He even says the jet is to “share the love of Jesus.”
Two thousand years ago, Jesus gave his disciples their traveling orders in the Gospel of Luke: “Then he called his 12 disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick. And he said unto them, ‘Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor pack, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.’” It would appear Dollar and his jet are out of step with the way Jesus wanted his disciples to look like to the people they were going to preach to.
PATRICK KELLY, CONYERS
