Fences, guns and guards in American schools

Eventually every school system in America will have to fence in every school and put an armed guard at every gate. Inside the school building cameras will have to be focused on doors and vulnerable glass windows and someone will have to monitor all the cameras. Some school systems will be slow on adding such security but lawsuits from teachers will eventually bring more stringent security into reality.

GLENN MOLLETTE

The Nashville shooting of three children and three adult workers was another heinous act carried out by a deranged person. Someone who commits such an act is beyond mentally ill; they have become mentally deranged. Sadly, the individual waited too long to get psychological help.

I don’t want to mention the shooter’s name because too much attention is given to people who kill innocent school teachers and children and even people in houses of worship. They prey on places that are typically gun-free zones filled with people who are often trapped with no way of escape. Newspapers and media sources should eliminate mentioning the name of such killers. As evil as it is, these mentally ill people see such acts as a way for them to get massive negative attention and to go out in what they perceive to be a moment of glory.

The idea of such security at all our schools is di cult to embrace but we have no choice. This adds to the financial challenges facing school systems. A fence is not aesthetically appealing. It looks third world but that’s where we are in America. I’ve traveled to enough third world countries to have viewed walls around average homes, churches and schools. In Brazil many walls are erected around homes because of the high crime rate. Thieves are everywhere in

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Letters to the Editor

Project Frontier

EDITOR:

There is a good watch about some of what is really happening with Project Frontier on YouTube. This project, one of Amazon’s largest fulfillment center in the world, is nearly three Disneylands large and being pushed through the county on a conditional use permit, which is essentially a checkbox approval.

The only checkbox that did not get this approved without any public hearings, Planning Commission evaluation and environmental impact study is the height. It is 110 feet tall and 4.8 million square feet. The tra c study was done during the height of COVD, May 2020. So far the height is the only piece that is stopping this checkbox approval.

The height will be reviewed by ministerial process, one person, Karen Garner the zoning administrator who built an Amazon warehouse in Gilroy along with several other warehouses. She is new to El Dorado as of January of last year. This land is not zoned for heavy industrial use; it is zoned research and development. Even by El Dorado Hills zoning, this is not allowed even by conditional use permit. Seem strange to you? It’s strange to us.

KATHY WILLIAMS El Dorado Hills

Credit card profits

EDITOR:

Why isn’t anyone looking into why credit card companies are allowed to charge 15% to 30%-plus interest rates on credit card balances? The current prime rate is 8%.

One company reported its gross profit margin of 97.5% and net income of $14.96 billion, ending September 2022. This is more than most of the oil companies.

Everyone is complaining about high gas and food prices. Every time some people purchase these products they use their credit card.

An internet search came back with information that the average household has an average credit card balance of $7,279. The average American has four credit cards.

RICK GROVE Shingle Springs

Comedic talent

EDITOR:

Mr. Garon’s letter on Trump’s so called COVID-19 crime is a ludicrous hoot from end to end. It should be featured on Comedy Central.

Let’s look at some of his more hilarious points. He says nobody may ever now the origin of the virus. Let’s look at that. It breaks out right next to a Chinese lab partially funded by Dr. Fauci whose primary goal was to research the creation of exactly that type of virus. Saying we’ll never know the origin of COVID is like finding a body outside a Nazi concentration camp and saying we’ll never be able to guess what happened.

Then, like many lefties, he complains that Trump didn’t take drastic action on COVID. Gotta love the hypocrisy of the left, who at the time called Trump a xenophobe for taking immediate and drastic action by shutting down travel to the U.S. from China.

As to the drugs that Mr. Garon complained about, saying that Invermectin supposedly killed some people, the vaccine did the same thing to some people. People are di erent; the same drugs don’t always have the same e ect on everybody. But having a government Ministry of Truth telling doctors what they can say and prescribe is not the answer unless you’re in Russia.

Like I say, Garon is a comedian. The tragedy is that the left’s misguided lunge toward authoritarian rule a ects real people.

GEORGE ALGER Placerville

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