The main contention by the Port Angeles mayor in the Nov. 3 front page article “Veterans Park fence defended,” is the removal of the soldier silhouettes adorning the fence at the Veterans Memorial Park because there are representations of guns.
She states that they have drawn objections from people, but doesn’t say how many complaints were received.
They ask why should guns be represented when guns are killing our children in schools?
These decorative outlines are of colonial soldiers with muskets at a replica of the Liberty Bell.
Do these people think the war for this country’s independence was fought with slingshots?
To say nothing of the dishonor to our veterans who serve to secure the freedoms these people enjoy.
This is a classic example of the preposterous, inane thinking by progressive, liberal left-wing gun prohibitionists in their campaign to disarm all innocent firearm owners in the country.
Sadly, accounts of gun violence are propagated and sensationalized by lamestream media and our children are being indoctrinated into thinking their classrooms are killing fields.
The liberals, when complaining about the evils of firearms, sometimes seem to offer a resolution for their thinking.
In the mayor’s case, the symbols should represent democracy, not “tools of violence.”
Maybe a bronze plaque with the Bill of Rights etched in it.
That’s a part of our democracy without outlines of guns.
It appears we’re entering an intellectual dark age.
Fortunately, the mayor pulled her request from the City Council’s agenda.
Roger M. Foszcz,
Port Angeles