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O’Malley hasn’t been good for Maryland
To the editor:
I believe the morale in this country is at the lowest most of us have seen in our lives. Gov. O’Malley wants to abolish the death penalty to protect convicted killers and give them something our homeless pray for: food, housing, medical coverage and education.
I challenge the governor to tell the families of the firemen recently killed by a convicted murderer whom our justice system released that the death penalty will not work. If there is a shred of doubt, we should never execute; however, in the cases of our policemen and security officers, execution must be swift and with no appeals. How expensive can this be? Did the officers and families get appeals?
Some say the death penalty is no deterrent to crime, and they might be correct; however, it will eliminate a convicted killer from getting out and killing again. If the killer in Sandy Hook had lived, should we have housed and fed him in exchange for murdering children?
O’Malley wants to license private gun ownership. This is so very political that it stinks. And it is, in effect, another tax. We license cars, but does this stop drunken drivers from killing thousands of children and adults?
It seems O’Malley thinks this might be his stepping stone to higher office. I very much doubt he has the children’s welfare in mind.
Our justice system needs overhauled, and criminals’ rights should be revoked before our rights. No one should be released on a technicality.
We have a national database for sex offenders, so why can’t we do the same for the mentally ill as a part of a good background check?
There are other people in Maryland outside of the large cities, and I can only hope they get it right the next time O’Malley runs for any office.
Ellis Snyder
Clear Spring
Gun ownership rate not indicative of homicide rate
To the editor:
Several reports on gun ownership around the world clearly refute the assertion that the abundance of guns in the United States leads to a high rate of firearm homicides.
Americans are the biggest gun owners by far, with an estimated 270 million civilian firearms, in addition to those used by law enforcement and the military. That’s according to the Small Arms Survey of 178 nations conducted by the Switzerland-based Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
In sheer numbers of civilian firearms, the No. 2 nation is India (46 million), followed by China (40 million), Germany (25 million), Pakistan (18 million) and Mexico (15 million).
The United States also leads in gun ownership rate, with about 88 firearms per 100 people, according to the most recent Small Arms Survey compiled in 2007.
That is far ahead of No. 2 Yemen, which has 55 firearms per 100 people. Switzerland is third (46), followed by Finland (45), Serbia (38), Cyprus (36), Saudi Arabia (35) and Iraq (34).
To the editor:
I challenge the governor to tell the families of the firemen recently killed by a convicted murderer whom our justice system released that the death penalty will not work. If there is a shred of doubt, we should never execute; however, in the cases of our policemen and security officers, execution must be swift and with no appeals. How expensive can this be? Did the officers and families get appeals?
Some say the death penalty is no deterrent to crime, and they might be correct; however, it will eliminate a convicted killer from getting out and killing again. If the killer in Sandy Hook had lived, should we have housed and fed him in exchange for murdering children?
O’Malley wants to license private gun ownership. This is so very political that it stinks. And it is, in effect, another tax. We license cars, but does this stop drunken drivers from killing thousands of children and adults?
It seems O’Malley thinks this might be his stepping stone to higher office. I very much doubt he has the children’s welfare in mind.
Our justice system needs overhauled, and criminals’ rights should be revoked before our rights. No one should be released on a technicality.
We have a national database for sex offenders, so why can’t we do the same for the mentally ill as a part of a good background check?
There are other people in Maryland outside of the large cities, and I can only hope they get it right the next time O’Malley runs for any office.
Ellis Snyder
Clear Spring
Gun ownership rate not indicative of homicide rate
To the editor:
Several reports on gun ownership around the world clearly refute the assertion that the abundance of guns in the United States leads to a high rate of firearm homicides.
Americans are the biggest gun owners by far, with an estimated 270 million civilian firearms, in addition to those used by law enforcement and the military. That’s according to the Small Arms Survey of 178 nations conducted by the Switzerland-based Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
In sheer numbers of civilian firearms, the No. 2 nation is India (46 million), followed by China (40 million), Germany (25 million), Pakistan (18 million) and Mexico (15 million).
The United States also leads in gun ownership rate, with about 88 firearms per 100 people, according to the most recent Small Arms Survey compiled in 2007.
That is far ahead of No. 2 Yemen, which has 55 firearms per 100 people. Switzerland is third (46), followed by Finland (45), Serbia (38), Cyprus (36), Saudi Arabia (35) and Iraq (34).
