Gutless Lawmakers

Re “Revisiting Drug Sentences,” editorial, Aug. 29: Bravo! Finally a newspaper with the guts (and it’s about time) to say what everyone knows: Politicians who write bad (unenforceable or “where the cure is worse than the crime”) laws commit a great social wrong. They are indeed “too gutless” to change such a law, even when it can be clearly demonstrated that it frustrates and makes a laughingstock of justice. Gutless politicians allow the system to become corrupted--the inevitable consequence of bad laws. We live in shameful times.

Rex Styzens

Long Beach