US AS IMPOTENT ON SYRIA AS ON SHOOTINGS

Once again President Obama has to face the media to try to explain yet another school shooting in the United States and blames his own government for inaction over gun laws.

Is it any wonder the US is

To terminate their access to the fish quotas that they own, with no compensation, is analogous to expropriating farmers, declaring their lands to be a national park and telling them that they can go and farm elsewhere – at their own expense. neutered over its protestations with the United Nations and Russia over who should be in charge in Syria if the country can’t even convince Americans over how to reduce domestic school shootings?

This is a dangerous precedent. Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has been silent, despite the fact that part of a major export sector (fishing) in his portfolio has been attacked. Did he know what was coming? Is he and his ministry

Good on Murray McCully, our foreign minister, for making an impassioned speech to the UN obviously targeting an ex-PM from New Zealand for the top job.

STEVE ANDERTON

Paraparaumu

subordinate to Conservation? Perhaps he is now too busy dealing with the companies, and Maori, who are furious at this confiscation of their property rights, to answer.

R LEA CLOUGH

Napier