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Today's Opinions

  • Current gun laws should be enforced

    To the editor:
    Mary Hart has asked for support of a gun petition at St. Brendan’s Church.
    The petition’s soft, sweet-sounding, convincing, liberal language, when implemented, is draconian in nature and will end private legal ownership of firearms.
    The petition asks for six features—control the sale and use of firearms, standardized criminal background checks, regulations to prevent easy access, require training and mandate purchase of liability insurance.

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  • Praises for Beacon religion columnist

    To the editor:
    I absolutely loved Fran’s [Salone-Pelletier] column this week.
    I suffered a stroke and lost my cushy executive job shortly thereafter. I have been working to rebuild my life ever since. Yesterday, I was feeling a bit frustrated that it was taking so long to adapt to a new lifestyle of disabilities.
    Her message of keep dreaming—everything will be all right in the end—was just what I needed.

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  • Thank you all for Calabash sidewalks

    To the editor:
    A very special thanks to NCDOT, state grant monies, Calabash Mayor Knight, and the Calabash Board of Commissioners. We all appreciate the turn of events in the YES decision concerning the Beach Drive sidewalks.
    It was the right thing to do. I am looking forward to the use of these very much-needed sidewalks for daily use and the safety of our community. Kudos to all.
    Mary Ann Baker
    Calabash
     

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  • Tag & Tax Together getting ready to break our routine

    This will probably be a good idea—once we get used to it.
    Not many people like change, not at first anyway.
    We North Carolina drivers had gotten used to getting our license tags at one time and paying our vehicle-tax bills at another.
    All that’s getting ready to change.
    The first combined tag-and-tax notices will soon arrive in North Carolina mailboxes for vehicle-registration bills that are due in July.

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  • Manhunt makes for compelling television and uplifting ending

    I never hear the Navy Hymn without thinking about President John F. Kennedy’s funeral.
    I was thinking about that Friday night while waiting for the second Boston Marathon bomber to be captured. I was thinking about being glued to the television in 1963 and all the other major news events we’ve watched unfold “live” on television.

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  • Moods change with the weather, but it gives us something to talk about

    Just when you thought it was spring, a blanket of blustery chill descends, the central heat kicks on, and you have to get back under a blanket (as I sit writing this under my faux-fur blankie, the one I’ve been carrying around with me since November).

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  • A veteran says no to another memorial

    To the editor:
    Once again, the Sunset Beach Town Council is determined to spend our precious tax dollars on something Sunset Beach taxpayers don’t want or need.
    Once again, only Carol Scott had the courage to say no. Once again, the vote was 4 to 1.
    I am proud to be a decorated Vietnam combat veteran. I was an Air Force search-and-rescue helicopter pilot for almost two years.
    I was wounded three times, but I staunchly oppose the waste of our tax dollars for yet another veterans’ memorial.

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  • You can ask Kay, but don’t expect answers

    To the editor:
    Sen. Kay Hagan sponsored a Twitter town hall on April 9 asking constituents to directly engage her with questions on veterans’ and military family issues.
    It should have been titled “#AskKayOnlyIfYouAgreeWithHer.”
    The senator answered ONLY a few soft-ball, pre-planned questions.
    Sadly, she ignored multiple questions of significance about Second Amendment issues for veterans, answers on the four dead Americans in Benghazi, troop support in North Carolina, sequester issues and the like.

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