Letters to the Editor category, Page 300

So now we have an age-old gun manufacturer, Colt, capitulating to the leftist/socialist movement to chip away at the Second Amendment by stopping the sale of its AR-15 rifle to civilian customers (“Colt suspends production of AR-15 for civilian market.”) This is typical of businesses folding to the pressures of...

Hats off to Kaley Bastine, a 7-year-old who has raised a large sum of money to support our local police departments (“Harrison’s Kaley Bastine spreading police fundraising efforts to New Kensington,” Aug. 28,TribLIVE). What a terrific young lady. During my 35 years as a teacher in the Highlands School District,...

Lori Falce pulls no punches in “Vaping defense is up in smoke.” The mother of all truth-bombs was “These aren’t grown-up decisions.” This blows up any progressive argument in favor of lowering the voting age to 16; children should not vote. Child-like citizens of voting age get addicted to the...

I’d like to add my opinion to the suggestions on how to rebuild the Pirates. The GM and all the coaching staff should go! Josh Bell should bring interest from an American League team as a DH. He is too clumsy and slow as a position player. The following players...

In the past year, Pennsylvanians have experienced an unprecedented amount of rain and flooding in areas that have never flooded before, causing increased concern over the preparedness of Pennsylvanians. A study conducted by the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Association revealed that only 26% of Pennsylvanians age 65 and older have a...

My wife and I have reached the point in our lives where the kids are gone and our older home and land require more work than we’re able/willing to do, so we are attempting to downsize to a smaller property. Unfortunately, a prohibiting factor is the high property tax on...

We are desperately in need of action in a moral and ethical way. Vote! Always be aware of who you vote for, and then act in a moral and ethical way. Joyce C. Morgan Greensburg...

We are leaving coming generations a very heavy burden of debt. At some point in the near future this debt will come due and they will be forced to pay. I am not talking about dollar debt. I am talking about carbon debt. I am talking about the way we...

Some folks, somewhere within our consumer-driven economy, have decided to spend a major effort to develop self-driving vehicles. The idea of being able to sit back in your own automobile and head out onto the open road and have the driving taken care of by some automated system and not...

The anger and rage are palpable. The divisiveness is nearing civil unrest. Our moral depravity is of biblical proportions. America the beautiful is turning very ugly. Vitriol spews from television, radio, newsprint and social media as if from the mouth of a serpent. We vainly attempt to change the meaning...

Regarding the article “Sunday hunting push faces obstacles in Pennsylvania,” Sept. 14, TribLIVE): It is time to take the Pennsylvania Farm bureau out of the mix altogether. Legalize Sunday hunting in state forests and on state gamelands and be done with it. The bureau claims written permission from landowners is...

There are many reasons why I am proud to be from Pittsburgh and its surrounding suburbs. Inventions from Pittsburgh include the polio vaccine, the first radio broadcast from KDKA in 1920, the first Ferris wheel, the first movie theater, the first baseball stadium (Forbes Field), the Big Mac (on McKnight...

Let’s work together to stop partisan gerrymandering. Gerrymandering puts power in the hands of a few — the politicians — at the expense of the rest of us — the citizenry. We can stop this crooked process by telling our state reps that we support House Bills 22 and 23....

Impeachment inquiry: Disgusting, deceitful, deranged, demented Democrats. ‘Nuff said. Frank Novotny Unity...

For hateful rhetoric like Robert Jedrzejewski’s letter “NRA’s terroristic ways” (Sept. 10, TribLIVE) to be spewed out on your pages on 9/11 — a day reminding us that we are victims in the face of oppression unless we mass and fight to overcome our assailants, as those on Flight 93...

Regarding two prominent topics in the Sept. 20 edition (“Vaping defense is up in smoke”; “Greensburg joins in Global Climate Strike”): Our youth are not educated, enlightened and mature enough to grasp the fact that sucking an unknown foreign substance directly into their little pink lungs is dangerous (basic anatomy/physiology),...

I disagree with letter-writer Robert Jedrzejewski’s view of the NRA ("NRA’s terroristic ways," Sept. 10, TribLIVE). He is pro gun control. I am pro responsible gun ownership, which the NRA promotes. Guns are inanimate objects. They do not, cannot and never will be able to shoot themselves. They need an...

At a time in our lives where everybody seems to be at each other’s throat, the simple truth is that love is the defining difference in a society. That love comes from God. Here’s the simple truth as to why we have so many problems. We kill our young before...

I am writing to inform op-ed writer Colleen Cook (“Tom Wolf’s attack on charter schools unfair”) that Gov. Tom Wolf’s attempt to fix the problems with the state’s charter schools is spot on, particularly those that are cybercharter schools. While your son has benefited from taking his classes this way,...

On page A4 of your Sept. 15 edition, you reported that Jane Fonda was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. As a Vietnam veteran, I cannot begin to tell you how much this upsets and disrespects me and every one of my brothers and sisters in arms who...

I don’t know if Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto has been reading the news lately about the shootings in other countries or not. Yes, we Americans can carry weapons such as handguns. We do have the right to buy military-style rifles. This is our right. I agree that any weapon in...

The Democratic/socialist debates were the same old soup just warmed over. All basically promise the same thing: give-aways, higher taxes and gun confiscation. I don’t need free college, loan forgiveness, Medicare for all or a $15 minimum wage. I was born in a Democrat family and grew up in a...

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama recently made an offer on a nearly $15 million house and property in Martha’s Vineyard. Since Bernie Sanders is such a good communist, he can seize through taxation Obama’s property to help the downtrodden in America. Obama would no doubt protest Sanders’ communist policy....

Hillary Clinton was wrong to call then-candidate Donald Trump’s supporters “deplorables.” Had she sub-grouped the Trumpites, as follows below, voters might have understood her point. The enablers comprise one segment of Trump’s followers. They cringe at his lies and behavior and hate his tweets, but their GOP roots keep them...

The shouting down of anyone who doesn’t agree with the left wing’s liberal agenda is nothing new. The radicals have always tried to drown out any reasonable discourse over the decades. In the midst of the sexual revolution of the ’60s and ’70s, people who tried to warn the public...