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Hernando letters: Nugent could learn a lesson from the Constitution

 
Published Oct. 7, 2015

Rep. Nugent, learn to compromise

U.S. Rep. Richard Nugent: I co-teach an American history/civics class for people who are interested in becoming citizens. The Constitution is covered in some detail, especially how it came to be written and ratified.

It was written by men who understood the value of compromise. They realized that without compromise, this critical document that would define and govern the United States of America would never be written, and the American Revolution would have been fought in vain.

You were elected to represent the people of your district and to uphold the law of the land — the Constitution — not to follow the dictates of special political party interests. Do your job!

Vicke Caligure, Homosassa

Gun shows need background checks

Hernando County had a local ordinance for background checks at gun shows but repealed it in 2009.

I have witnessed firsthand an ex-girlfriend get shot with a BB gun by her mother's ex-boyfriend. Given the fact that some people come from dysfunctional family settings in this county, I think Hernando County commissioners need to be rebellious and bring back the ordinance requiring background checks at local gun shows.

David Philipsen, Weeki Wachee

How to appease gun range, drivers

In perusing the Oct. 2 Hernando Times, my attention was drawn to two headlines: 'Gun range plan upsets neighbors' and, in the Letters to the Editor, 'Slow drivers need to keep right.'

I think I see the answer to both complaints with one solution. That is, let the gun range people shoot out the tires of the knuckleheads doing 40 mph in the inside lane.

Crazy, you say? Don't forget, this is Florida.

John Campbell, Spring Hill

True rebuttal not name-calling

A "mistake" is an error, hopefully made once — not repeated many times for more than a year.

Jeff Stabins ran out of legitimate rebuttal to Dan DeWitt's column urging Commissioner Nick Nicholson to step down when he resorted to juvenile name-calling. This would reflect a deep-seated and long-term resentment of another source.

Surely, Mr. Stabins does not mean to equate this local affair on a scale with the Cuban missile crisis.

Hopefully, he will calm down enough to put Mr. DeWitt's column in its proper perspective.

L.J. Phillips, Brooksville