Lawmakers should try it out first

Reading the Dispatch about new proposed gun laws, 24 million people losing health care under the congressional plan and various other disasters, its very easy to realize that, since I’m not a white, Christian millionaire, I matter not at all to my elected officials. I know many others feel the same way, including many of the disillusioned folks who sadly voted for our president.

I’d feel better about the laws being passed if there were a requirement that every law passed by our state and federal lawmakers be made to apply to those who passed them for six months before they apply to the public.

Our state legislators see no potential danger in permitting guns in colleges, bars and day- care centers, but they draw the line at allowing guns in the Statehouse, their place of work. I say before they permit guns in other ridiculous places, they first allow them in the Statehouse.

Since all our state and federal legislators have fabulous health insurance paid for by us, they are immune to the struggles of the rest of us. Let’s eliminate the health insurance that comes with a job in the legislature and have any proposed health care apply to the legislators first. I hope none of them have pre- existing conditions or kids with serious medical problems.

Votes to put U. S. troops in various conflicts might have been different if lawmakers supporting such measures had to do the fighting. And now they have the easy job of imposing provisions on the rest of us that they don’t have to live by.

No right thinking person can find that to be a tolerable situation.

So, let our representatives start shopping for health insurance and buying bulletproof vests for the Statehouse chambers.

We might see some more sensible proposals coming from there in the future.

Randall Alan Columbus