The illegal guns on our streets
Whitestone: With four police officers shot by an ex-con, Nakwon Foxworth, using a gun purchased in North Carolina, Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly are demanding action from Congress on gun sales (“Killing machine,” April 10). The National Rifle Association is Public Enemy No. 1 and should be publicly declared so by our elected officials and all of law enforcement. Olga D. Peabody Hicksville, L.I.: Maybe Mayor Bloomberg should step aside and let the NRA enforce already existing gun laws. It’s obvious Bloomberg and all the other worthless bureaucrats like him are incapable of doing the job they were elected to do — taking career criminals off the streets.
Gerald M. Esposito Astoria: The NRA is an organization of licensed gun owners who believe in the Second Amendment, which was created because of people like Nakwon Foxworth — who, I can say with complete certainty, wasn’t an NRA member. Brad Morris Hard to bear Brooklyn: The NRA and its gun-obsessed members value their misguided interpretation of the Second Amendment more than they value America’s safety. Until legislators stop allowing themselves to be bullied by the NRA, firearms will continue to ruin lives, diminish liberty and limit the pursuit of happiness.
Neil S. Friedman
Yikes, bikes Manhattan: Thank you, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, for finally tracking bicycle accidents involving pedestrians. Not a day goes by that I don’t see or hear about a pedestrian hit by a bicycle unlawfully riding on the sidewalk, running a red light or going in the wrong direction.
Suzanne Lovejoy
Drawing the lines Howard Beach: Many people seem to think that blue handi- capped areas and those blue lines next to them are spaces to leave shopping carts. The blue box with the lines next to the handicapped parking spot is to leave accessible space for people with wheelchairs to enter the vehicle. Remember — we are all TAP — Temporarily Able People.
Bennett Lavorino
Injudicious addition Brooklyn: Re “Gotcha Garaufis” (editorial, April 9): Obviously, the facts don’t coincide with Judge Nicholas Garaufis’ desires, so he is reluctant to let the general public get a view of his monitor’s bill. D. Drepaul
NFL headhunting Bronx: As a 50-year-old man who has followed almost every sport for the last 40 years, I have seen too many greedy, phony, spoiled players, owners, agents and even writers who think they are better and smarter than everybody else. But I cannot think of a bigger lying, phony hypocrite than NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. His actions in regard to the Saints bounty scandal is a total joke. This is something that has been going on in football forever. Now he wants to make a big deal out of it so he can try to be the guy who is looking out for player safety.
Peter Morrissey
Foul play Manhattan: It does not surprise me to learn that in New Orleans Saints games, a number of players have been paid to injure opponents. It brings to mind the case of the attack in 1994 on ice skater Nancy Kerrigan. When huge amounts of money are given to winners in sports, the temptation exists to do whatever it takes to win, including foul play.
Cecile Low
Isla del encanto Howard Beach: When former Gov. Mitt Romney won the primary in Puerto Rico, was he thinking to himself that some of his friends own bigger islands?
Ernest Kienzle
Potshot Ronkonkoma, L.I.: The people of New York want medical marijuana, but our Legislature, which supposedly represents us, won’t pass the bill. Why is it illegal? Pharmaceutical companies don’t want us growing our own safe medicine because they won’t make any money from it. Complete travesty. Anthony Leon
Unfinished business Brooklyn: Mayor Bloomberg doesn’t want to release the report on the 911 system scandal because it’s not complete, but he is fine with releasing teacher data that most everyone finds inaccurate. Jeffrey Bozler
Caught on camera Brooklyn: I read a report about a white male in Baltimore who was beaten, robbed and stripped by a group of black men and women. This entire incident was caught on camera, and when I saw the video, I became ill. As a black man, I am saddened to see this. This sort of behavior is the reason black people are stereotyped and feared. We need to start taking responsibility for the actions of our own and stop blaming others.
James Evans
In black and white I Staten Island: To Voicers Raymond A. Turner and Richard Nagan: If “unarmed” black men and boys had been instilled with any kind of respect for the law in the first place, things might not have gotten so out of control.
M. King
In black and white II Brooklyn: Why is it that when an African-american is killed by a white man, the perpetrator’s race is always a factor and is printed. However, if the perpetrator is black and the victim is white, there’s never a mention of race. For instance, I didn’t see anywhere in your paper stating that of the last eight cops who have been shot, seven were white and were shot by African-american males. Seems to me there is an agenda behind this. Chris Barry
Oyez, oyez, oyez North Syracuse, N.Y.: Reader J. Behan feels that I had no right to criticize the Supreme Court for being political. Has he forgotten that the court gave George W. Bush the presidency before the State of Florida did a recount? I don’t trust the court to uphold the true meaning of the Constitution. If Obamacare is thrown out, it will be because of politics.
Linda Wyatt
That was then Whitestone: Voicer Alexander Klock says President Obama should stop intimidating the Supreme Court. He should go on Youtube and search for George W. Bush and judicial activism. Among other things that poor excuse for a President said was that the courts should not legislate from the bench. How much does anyone want to bet that Mr. Klock had no problem when Bush uttered those words?
Jan Finney
Mama mia! Lyndhurst, N.J.: After watching the first two installments of “Mama’s Boys” on TLC, I have two things to say. I’ve never been more embarrassed to be an Italian-american (who just happens to have been born and raised in that Bronx neighborhood), and those two installments were the first and last I will watch. To think that these imbecilic, moronic cretins have the gall to brag on television about being mama’s boys in their barely intelligible Neanderthal-speak. It is degrading to educated Italian-americans. Gina Finocchio
Long memory Melville, L.I.: I am tired of all the “freedom-loving” Miami Cubans who become enraged if anyone says anything positive about Fidel Castro. Dictator Fulgencio Batista was a monster, backed by the mob and the U.S. government, who made Saddam Hussein look like a Sunday school teacher. When he was thrown out, who fled the country? Most immigrants arrive in this country dead broke, but when the Cuban exiles hit Miami, they started buying everything that wasn’t nailed down with cash. Where did these freedom-loving exiles get their loot?
Hindy Wolff-herrera