Real emergencies

Florida confirms it was behind California migrant flights | June 6

So the governor’s Division of Emergency Management is using Florida taxpayers’ money to pick up more migrants in Texas and send them to California. You know what I consider an emergency? My homeowner’s insurance is increasing 88% even though I live far from the coast in a home that has withstood 100 years of Florida weather. How about dealing with that instead?

Anita Jimenez, Tampa

Fly me

Florida confirms it was behind California migrant flights | June 6

I wish the governor would put me on a private plane and fly me free to northern California, allowing me to escape the hot miserable, global-warming Tampa summer heat. California is gorgeous this time of year. Those 20 migrants are so lucky.

John Spengler, Spring Hill

What we saw

Public, not private | Letter, June 6

We used to live and teach in a school district in another state where a religious right group took over. Through mass voting, they took over the entire school board. When we taught there we had many AP courses, great sports teams, clubs, etc. There were classes in art, industrial arts, music and foreign language. There is none of that today. The board took public school money and used it for their religious private schools. I agree with the letter writer that people who have their children placed in private and/or religious schools should not be on the public school boards. If their priority was to help the public schools, they would send their children there.

Gail Riba and John Doellinger, Wimauma

A bad recipe

7 are wounded in shooting after graduation in Virginia capital

The United States has essentially normalized school shootings. No venue is immune. If it doesn’t have a body count high enough, if it’s not children or a famous person, we don’t even hear about it. Now, it would seem we are going to be comfortable with shooting people who knock on our doors, turn around in our driveway or play the wrong type of music too loud. Stand your ground is a bad name for the law that created it. It should be known as the “homicide forgiveness law.” We now have an environment where it is fine to use deadly force if the state can’t prove you weren’t afraid. Fear over common sense is a bad recipe.

David Costello, Bushnell