Call to arms: Ban weapons of war

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Brooklyn: The Second Amendment of the Constitution: It gives permission to all citizens to bear arms to protect their families from harm and from invasion by a foreign enemy. That makes sense, but can anyone tell me how many instances we have ever had where someone needed an AK-47 and a 100-bullet clip to protect and stop an intruder or kill an invader? We have never had a modern foreign land invasion, only homegrown white racist killers, and I would think that a handgun or shotgun would be more than enough to protect against a home invasion. How many instances have been recorded, since the ban on automatic weapons was revoked that a weapon of war was needed to protect a family against a home intruder?

To all the people who own these weapons: You are good honest citizens who bought them in good faith and would never hurt anyone. But can you see that the lack of background checks and under-the-counter sales have killed so many innocent, men, women and children?

Only the members of the NRA can stop the madness and allow Congress to vote on simple, life-saving regulations that also protect the rights of all Americans to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I’m spitting into the wind.

On deaf ears

Bronx: Many people are asking Trump to do something about the monsters of hatred and racism he energizes everyday. There is nothing he or those of his ilk are able to do without it backfiring on them. They are too involved with those cowards who wear the white robes of the KKK and the white supremacists. Guns are more popular than pizza and apple pie. The blood that the president has on his hands does not faze him one bit. This evil will come back to haunt him. This government is too impotent to protect us. Do you think the entire nation should take up arms? Wake up, America.

J. Crestwell Munnings

Time for a ban

Bronx: When is Congress going to grow a pair and take assault weapons off our streets? No private citizen should be able to get assault weapons, whether they are ill or not. Susana Burgos

Tee time

Bronx: Voicer Suzanne Hayes Kelly is right on. That creature in the White House is only interested in his own amusement, self-aggrandizement and sick self-gratification. He spends more time at his rallies and on the golf course than he spends in the

White House working. He does not know what real work is. Anna Maria McCorry

Bearing north

Washington: Our nation needs a leader with a moral compass! Sadly the tragedies will not stop until we have an empathetic, morally fit and caring occupant of the Oval Office. Marla Allard

It’s an epidemic

Bronx: Voicer Ed Temple is right: Black people do not perpetrate mass shootings. They are more likely to engage in street homicides and the like. No matter what your perspective is and what racial spin you want to use, the underlying cause is a brazen lack of respect for that which is sacred: human life. It is symptomatic of the decline of American civilization and there is enough blame to go around. Joseph Fusco

Keeping score

Ken Ackermann

Manhattan: OSHA monitors safety and health in the workplace and requires employers to track the intervals between accidents. Signs must be posted in common areas stating, for instance, “Seven days since last accident.” What if newspapers posted similar notices about mass killings? This could include additional statistics such as the interval between the last several shootings, where they occurred, casualties, etc. A box score of death. What do you say, Daily News?

Sam Soffer

Birth control

Bronx: To Voicer Jeanne Robicheau: If I were a parent, I would never experience what the Rodriguez family is going through simply because I’m not careless enough to leave my child in the car. In my world, children are not disposable. In my world, you don’t forget your children in the back seat. Eight hours at work. I would be thinking about them the entire eight hours. What the Rodriguez family needs are condoms so they do not have children to casually forget. But then again, Mr. Rodriguez would forget to wear the condom like he forgot his child in the backseat. He belongs in jail. My heart aches for his children, not for him or his wife.

Mike Memphis

Help the horsies

Fresh Meadows: On Sunday, a carriage horse escaped a stable and fled into Tenth Ave. traffic before being caught. Then just two hours later, when it was very hot and humid, a different carriage horse collapsed and struggled on the ground in Central Park, in front of horrified onlookers. Runaway horses, collapses and crashes in traffic aren’t rare in our congested city, and pose a significant public safety risk. It’s up to the Department of Health and city officials to prevent cruelty to these overburdened horses in the greatest city in the world.

Edita Birnkrant

Onto the next

Bronx: “Gov. inks law for boat safety classes” (Aug. 6). Great idea. Now how about the bicyclist, scooters and pedestrians? Tom Tramantano Sr.

He’s out!

Whitestone: I was happy to see the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings finally be rid of its misogynist-in-chief, Fidel Del Valle (“NYC’s top administrative judge Fidel Del Valle retires after hurling f-bombs at cop in City Hall tirade,” Aug. 5). The News reported that he retired, but it seems obvious that Del Valle was forced out. Bravo to Officer Lissette Torres-Ocasio for standing up for her badge and her self-respect. Inspector Howard Redmond should have

GETTY been demoted for his cowardly and sycophantic conduct in trying to get Officer Torres-Ocasio to drop her complaint. Officer TorresOcasio apparently knows the value and necessity of “upward discipline” when she stood up to a boss tried to prevent her from doing her job — doing the right thing — in reporting Del Valle’s misogynistic diatribe.

Dorothy Lyons

Cross eyed crossword

Garwood, N.J.: Kudos to Voicer Rhonda Castellani for pointing out how the Crossword II puzzle has apparently been taken over by a “maniac,” as Ralph Kramden would term him. For example, in the Aug. 6 puzzle, the 21 Down clue is: “Its members are often told to applaud.” Any normal person would write in “studio audience” but no, that would be wrong. The answer looks like something you would read off a eye chart! To wit: Stupoaupence. In a vain effort to show he is some sort of deep thinking puzzle master, the author’s clue answers involve a convoluted substitution code. In Jersey we have a response to that: “Code this pal!” Mike Gordeuk