Trump besmirching Reagan’s shining city on the hill

I read a letter that extols “The silent majority still stands with Trump” (Readers Write, Sept. 2). “He may be undignified and immoral, but he is bringing back morality.” Can an immoral man really bring back morality? What about the wonderful Reagan quote that our country is “a bright shining city on the hill” — an inspiration to the world? Our Constitution and Bill of Rights have been an inspiration to the rest of the world, which is why millions, including my own parents who extricated themselves from the dangers of the Middle East after World War II, want to come here. Sad to say, the Trumpian model of destroying our most trusted alliances, denying climate change, destroying our environment, constantly denigrating our free press, and admiration of despots just reduces our country to the miserable category of another Third World country ruled by an immoral strongman.

DR. SALPI ADROUNY,

JOHNS CREEK

(Washington Post, 2017) firearms in the U.S., increasing at about 27 million per year (New York Post, 2017). The NRA leadership and their weak-kneed toadies in Congress and the White House have made it distressingly easy to obtain firearms, legally or illegally, and the enormous supply keeps the price manageable. As a result, police officers know they could be shot on any call to any community. That’s a paramount reason for the police shootings of citizens we see in the horrific videos. I have no solution. We’ll be sleeping in this bed for a long time.

ART BOWLING, DECATUR

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