Why don’t cops just use a net?
To the editor:
Regarding your report, "Police kill woman" (Review-Journal, Wednesday): I have no problem with the police officer who felt the need to use deadly force. What baffles me, regularly these days it seems, is the following:
Tigers, lions and bears are regularly captured without harm to them, using a net. I recently watched a wolf snagged harmlessly using a net.
I am not a trained police officer, but I assure you I could "net" that woman with the knife without harm to her or me.
Our police academies must be brain dead. Is a woman of 140 pounds more dangerous than a lion, tiger, bear or wolf?
DUANE L. GETTY
HENDERSON
Find that station
To the editor:
Forget about the ending of "The Sopranos." I want to know how to get to the Raceway gas station that Phil was at in the series finale. Gas at $2.37 a gallon: Now that's a happy ending!
MARK T. CRONIN
LAS VEGAS
Brushed aside
To the editor:
Yes, we have a problem.
No matter where you stand on the illegal immigration problem in this country, Americans should notice a few even bigger problems: Not only is the legislation created in back rooms, now the amendment process has been delegated to this mighty self-appointed group of senators.
Furthermore, the government is holding border security and the enforcement of the law hostage to an acquiescence on legalization, while our officials refuse to first conduct impact and cost analysis on a sweeping bill that could have far-reaching consequences for the American people.
The public has spoken loud and often to them with perfectly reasonable concerns, yet instead of addressing these legitimate concerns, they insult us and brush us aside.
Yes we have a problem, but I think our elected officials are missing the point -- that they are the problem.
MELODY BRIGHT
LAS VEGAS
Not freebies
To the editor:
First off, I'd Iike to thank Bob Swan for his informative letter regarding school taxes (Review-Journal, Friday).
Next, I've never had my name mentioned in the newspaper in all my life as many times as Review-Journal columnist Geoff Schumacher did on June 10.
In my letter published June 5, in response to Michael Harrison after he complained that teachers were only getting a 2 percent raise, not once did I say I hate paying taxes. My letter stated how my husband and I sometimes had to make do with what we had, and now that we're retired, we'd be happy if we got any kind of a raise.
Mr. Schumacher sure went off the deep end as far as I'm concerned, which is how most (not all) liberals seem to do nowadays. Wow, such hatred. He sure used me for a punching bag, but I'm old and I can take it if it makes him feel better.
As far as Social Security checks, those aren't freebies to us senior citizens. We paid into Social Security for over 40 years to finally get some of the money back to live on.
Sure, what we paid in wasn't the large sums they pay in now days. But in those years, it was large to us because we earned so much less than they get now.
BONNIE CARRICK
NORTH LAS VEGAS
Railroad pipe dream
To the editor:
Finally, a lawyer-politician who actually remembers his high school math.
I don't agree with him on everything, but Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman hit the nail on the head with his comments over highway funding and the "pipe dream" train to Los Angeles ("Mayor rides roughshod over roads, rails," Friday).
Any train between Southern California and here that takes five to six hours and may cost $170 round trip, and requires yet a $15 million annual subsidy on top of that, is doomed to failure. I just booked my flight on Southwest Airlines for half that time and money -- only the four-mile trip on the $5 Las Vegas Monorail seems like a worse deal.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority should be able to have a say over how some of its room tax revenue is being spent on roads, and it should be on roads that contribute to tourism. If not, then the room tax amount itself needs to be re-examined.
The obvious first priority should be the local widening of Interstate 15. After that, we should be giving California $1 million for every $2 million they spend on widening I-15 on the California side of the border.
Unless those choke points are eliminated, all other discussions are irrelevant.
ANDY SPURLOCK
LAS VEGAS
