Letters

To the editor:

Thank you, Brunswick County commissioners Randy Thompson, Mike Forte and Frank Williams, for standing with the residents of Brunswick County in revisiting the board’s previous two votes supporting seismic testing and offshore drilling.

Thank you for standing with the League of Women Voters of the Lower Cape Fear, educated women who have a history of thoroughly investigating community issues.

Thank you for standing with 180 coastal communities, representing thousands of concerned citizens who oppose offshore drilling.

To the editor:

On behalf of the board of advisers of the Brunswick County Community Foundation, I would like to say thank you to the citizens of Brunswick County for their support of our efforts to grow our community grant-making fund.

This year, thanks to your generosity, we will be able to increase our grants to support our local nonprofits. Nearly $8,000 was raised locally and through a generous match from anonymous donors to the North Carolina Community Foundation through the campaign.

To the editor:

I have written before and I’m writing again: Something needs to be done about all the trash on our roads. Why don’t people want to keep Brunswick County beautiful?

Also, on U.S. 17, there are so many fire anthills! I know I was told before we can’t kill them all and I realize that, but why don’t we treat as many as we can to keep down the spreading? People and animals can be seriously hurt by their bites, which are not only very painful, but can also kill.

How about another funny cartoon?

T.J. May

To the editor:

I spent almost 40 years in law enforcement, 10 as a chief. A letter to the editor last week called for action to ban “military style assault weapons.”

Forget the emotion and hysterics; it doesn’t help.

Bans don’t work (heroin was banned in 1924).

“No Firearm Zone” signs don’t work (almost every mass shooting was in a No Firearms Zone; maybe criminals can’t read).

We have thousands of gun control laws on the books. Enforce them with zero tolerance.