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Voice of the People, May 3, 2017 Voice of the People, May 3, 2017

Press of Atlantic City - 5/3/2017

Need better gun control

I appreciate President Trump's desire to keep America safe. However, I believe he is using the wrong strategy. Instead of focusing on immigrants, he should rather focus on the need for better scrutiny of the ways persons can obtain and keep guns.

According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were over 36,000 Americans killed by gunfire, about 60 percent of them suicides, in 2015 alone.

I would never diminish the tragic loss of life that occurred in the 9/11 attacks, but let us also not diminish the fact that the number of people killed each year by gunfire is 10 times greater than the total killed in the 9/11 attacks.

Until there are safer ways of monitoring the access and possession of guns, it will continually be difficult to live in a safe America.

John D. Zondag

North Cape May

Russia probe nonsense

So this nonsense about Russia's further involvement in the last election goes on and on ad infinitum. The defeated Democrats are like a whale blowing spume out of its blowhole, a dishonest and opportunistic vaporous display.

Vincent Torlini

Atlantic City

Special ed must part of any school choice offer

Regarding the March 31 editorial, "Ban on tuition students part of state's bias against choice schools":

I welcome the editorial and its positive attributes, but I was dismayed after learning one local school district is open to accepting elementary students for a $6,500 yearly fee if they are "regular education students only" and not special ed students. I found this to be a blatant disregard and disrespect for any and all special ed students.

I hope this isn't partly an effort to support the school's results on standardized tests and its ranking.

I am well aware that student special ed services cost more, but perhaps they could also be offered for a higher fee.

Good education embraces all students, and does not discriminate against any classified, special ed students. I find this district's policy to be discriminatory, offensive and very insulting.

Janet Maloney

Linwood

Excess gender sensitivity

It was reported in a news magazine that a Northern Arizona University student had her grade reduced on an English paper for using the term "mankind" rather than a gender-neutral alternative. The student, Cailin Jeffers, appealed, saying the term clearly refers to all people.

Her professor, Anne Scott, countered that it is "sexist" and "does not mean 'all people' to all people." She urged Jeffers to "look beyond her present ideologies" and resubmit the paper.

I would like to submit to Scott a word that might be appropriate for her students to use in her papers. The word is "Humanoidswithdifferentbodyparts." I'm sure, though, that someone, somewhere, will argue this word too is offensive.

Thomas Barrett

Brigantine