Your 2 Cents
Virginia is for lovers -- and Richmond is for Flying Squirrels, Flatheads, Hambones, Rock Hoppers, or Rhinos. What a classy selection for the capital of Virginia.
-- Noreen Brown, Richmond
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Those who do not like the banner that the owner of Club Velvet put up on his building about President Obama should remember that free speech is a two-way street. Not everyone is going to agree with everything you say. There are many things that so-called artists do that I find offensive, but in America we have the right to do those types of things. That is what makes this such a great country.
-- Steve Burton, Glen Allen.
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With all the debates about the straw dog known as the gun show loophole, I wonder if the anti-gun people would settle for a compromise. Pass their law to close the so-called loophole, but only under the condition that the law prohibiting concealed-carry into ABC-licensed restaurants (for those of us with permits and who do not drink) be repealed. I won't hold my breath.
-- Jeff H. Kleb Jr., Midlothian
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When we abandoned the South Vietnamese to the North Vietnamese communists, I was mad at the president and Congress. We had spent so much time there and lost so many men. No one cared. No one thought of the people we left behind. Could it be this president and Congress are considering abandoning the Afghani and Iraqi women and children to the thugs who had them so terrorized? Look at all the progress we have made. Can we as a Christian nation not see what will happen to the people? It will be worse than before we first marched in. We cannot become an elitist nation.
-- Jo King, Mechanicsville
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About a week ago while walking my morning mile, I discovered a Yield sign that had rusted off at the base of its mounting. Two days later the sign was still on the ground, and while it was apparent someone had tried to repost the sign unsuccessfully, it needed to be remounted. I called Henrico County and was directed to the appropriate county office, to which I reported the situation. Voila, within 24 hours there was a new sign installed, and I want to compliment the county employees for their prompt and efficient attention to this safety situation.
-- Billy J. Braughton, Henrico
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Traveling on Route 360 between Mechanicsville and Tappahannock, one can't help but notice the countless homes and farmland up for sale, as well as the numerous changes that have taken place in the past several years. I had not traveled that road in nearly 10 years, but after doing so lately I realize there is a great benefit to the recession. Although some landowners might have been hoping for their ship to come in during the building and development craze of the early 2000s, we who travel this road get to enjoy the country and beautiful land, which is not disappearing as quickly due to overclearing and overbuilding.
-- Jerry Woodard, Henrico
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Would you believe that nature has instilled a warning system in the common housefly that million of humans choose to ignore? As I opened the door, two flies went sailing out the door. Secondhand smoke saturated the house completely. Those two flies went into the hot air outside because it was purer than air inside the house.
-- Robert Coats, Henrico
Reader Reactions
Mr. Kleb you pose an interesting question that needs to be answered. You assert that all concealed weapons permit holders are law abiding, highly trained and very responsible, thus they should be allowed to carry their guns into licensed restaurants where they would pose absolutely no danger to the other patrons. I entirely agree with you 100% and would support that idea, but there are some things that gun owners do and say that work against you. First you damage your case as “law abiding” by supporting the “right” of individuals to sell guns to total strangers with no need to perform a background check even though you yourself took one for your CCW. Second you deride the idea that guns sold at gun shows can fall into the wrong hands by calling the idea a “straw dog”, when it is a fact. Why should the non gun owning public feel secure around CCW holders when the process for getting a CCW is not uniformlt stringent across the state or the country? In addition, your fellow CCW holders are working tirelessly to reduce the qualification needed to get a CCW, thus making it much harder for anyone to differentiate the highly trained and responsible gun owners from the rest, especially since it is no longer necessary to have ANY practical training to get a CCW in Virginia. Finally news reports of mass shootings by CCW holders across the country make non gun owners even more nervous. So what is it to be, CCW holders are so “special” that they should get more access or CCW holders should do less to show they are not a threat. The choice is yours. If you don’t want to show that you do not support arming dangerous people and don’t want to have to undergo any firearms training then why should the rest of us treat you any differently. Hard as it may be for gun owners to understand, most of us non gun owners just want to continue our lives without getting shot, either by a criminal or by a CCW holder, don’t continue to make it difficult for us to tell you apart!
Great observation Mr. Burton. The artistic left loved Mapplethorpe’s Bull Whips collection and crucifixes dipped in urine, but, put their own Messiah in a less than favorable light and they’ll pick up their pitchforks and torches too.
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