One nation, one gun-control law

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Woodside: Before you can even blink, there’s another gun rampage. Yet another mass shooting, this time in Fresno at a backyard football party. This follows last week’s tragedy at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, Calif., that left two students dead, many injured, and umpteen lives upended. Sadly, this is not a rarity anymore, but a regularity. Shocking and benumbing is what many like me say about the gun violence epidemic raging in America. It kills children, women, men indiscriminately. It destroys families and the very fabric of society.

Appallingly, Congress remains a mute spectator to the elephant in the room and unchecked gun violence continues unabated. With porous state borders complemented by disparate gun laws across the United States, it makes more sense to have a single, uniform, gun-control law rather than have each state decide its own.

It’s time to override and roll back state gun laws and roll out common-sense uniform federal gun-control laws. We have had enough of the insincerity of routine, hollow condemnations and condolences being freely doled out by our elected leaders and representatives like a standard template while the underlying cause of gun rampage, the elephant in the room, remains conveniently unaddressed. Atul M. Karnik

Hands and knees

Yonkers: It is nauseating to hear Mike Bloomberg as he jumps into the miasmic swamp of Democratic presidential candidates. His denunciation of the stop and frisk policy he once championed is pathetic pandering at its worst. Add the overt groveling towards the iniquitous Al Sharpton and his transformation is now complete. For someone who purportedly at one time had unwavering standards, he has joined the lefty list of dissembling selfpromoters. For shame.

James McCaffrey

Another needed apology

Bellerose: Now that former Mayor Bloomberg has apologized at a black megachurch in Brooklyn for stop and frisk, he needs to go to a union hall and apologize for the way he treated public school teachers. Robert Berger

Parm with that?

Mt. Sinai, L.I.: I love how the Republicans proclaim that we’re a “nation of laws” when it comes to immigration, but all bets are off when it comes to this orange meatball in the White House! Rotten hypocrites! Karl Bean

Natural resources

Manhattan: Instead of spending tax money on illegal aliens, spend it on veterans.

Illegal aliens get into public housing, food stamps, free health care — funds that should be used for veterans. They put their lives on the line. Many are disabled, while veterans who are killed leave behind families that need help. This situation is very unfair. It is not a race issue. I am tired of paying for illegals.

Marilyn Ringel

Yin yang

Fairfield, Conn.: I believe that nature seeks a balance in everything. The number of Democrats running for president will be equal to the number of Trump associates convicted of crimes.

An apple a day

Bob Bodo

Clearwater, Fla.: I am not at all surprised at President Trump’s unscheduled visit to Walter Reed Hospital. At age 73 and excessively overweight, Trump is not the young and vibrant man he claims to be and would like the public to believe he is. The fallout from the impeachment trial is no doubt playing havoc with his emotions, which could affect his physical well-being. After all, Trump is human and is not invincible. But whatever it is that prompted Trump’s recent unscheduled medical visit, it will most assuredly be minimized and downplayed.

JoAnn Lee Frank

Haley Mary

Larchmont, N.Y.: To Nikki Haley: Trump tried to extort a foreign leader to interfere in our election process for his benefit with money authorized by Congress for Ukraine. Nikki, the fact that Ukraine received the funds and did not end up meddling in our election is a testament to his stupidity, not his innocence!

Steve Michaud

Alternate future

Hollis: Voicer Oren Spiegler, I have to disagree with you on the idea that the president will use DACA as part of a deal with the Democrats to secure funding for his “beautiful wall.” Fox News and Rush Limbaugh will tell him that the Democrats got one over him; that he lost out to the Democrats. He will prefer to satisfy Fox, Limbaugh and others with the mass exodus of young people with higher education. The countries they go to will gladly accept them. Put their higher learning to use. The president will use the exodus to say that he has to strengthen immigration laws because people come to the USA for higher learning and return to their home countries instead of staying and contributing to the USA.

He will then tweet that he has outsmarted the Democrats, that he wins. No, America loses. Cecil Ronald

Matchmaker

Brooklyn: Hillary Clinton and Colin Kaepernick should get married. She can’t get over losing an election that she lost outright and Colin can’t get over the fact that he quit his job with the San Francisco 49ers and, to his dismay, no one wants to hire a quitter. He wasn’t good people, just a person who doesn’t know when to shut up or walk away. Patrick Doyle

Da flag! Da flag!

College Point: The NFL should seriously thank the creators of Fantasy Football. I truly believe that is why people watch, to see how their fantasy players are performing. Otherwise, no one would be watching this dreck. Penalty after penalty. There’s nothing more deflating than watching a great play get nullified by a ridiculous flag.

Guy Breen

News values

Howard Beach: I know this will not make the Voicers page because the Daily News will not consider this “newsworthy.” I am a practicing

Catholic living in Queens. The News put down a good man who is a leader for the Catholics in Brooklyn and Queens (“Brooklyn Bishop DiMarzio accused of sexually abusing 11-year-old Jersey City altar boy while still a parish priest back in the 1970s,” Nov. 13). No trial, just hearsay, and The News has half a page with pictures showing our bishop looking scared. I just hope that The News prints a half-page showing a happier bishop after they prove his innocence. We, the people who buy your paper, would like to see good news for a change. I’ll be waiting.

Nick Di Pasquale

Klutzy Koslowitz

AP

Forest Hills: Voicer Brandon Wiesen is absolutely right about Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz’s incompetent staff. I wrote her about a street paving issue on my block and the person who called me said he was looking at a map and that Yellowstone Blvd. and 69th Ave. do not make a corner. I said I live there and it does and he hung up on me. However, she runs unopposed so withholding your vote will not help. Anyone care to take her on?

Elaine Wohlu