Letters to the editor June 21

Investigation need into sale of firearms to drug traffickers

Regarding the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Gunwalker/Fast and Furious scandal, AG Holder is covering up the fact that the regime deliberately facilitated in trafficking firearms to narco-terrorists who used them to kill innocent Mexican citizens as well as two American law enforcement agents.

The abhorrence of such an atrocity begs the answer to one simple question: Why would the government engage in such despotic evil behavior?

We, the people, should question the very legitimacy of a regime that would facilitate the murder of innocent persons in order to justify additional draconian limitations on a right that the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution explicitly states - shall not be infringed.

If the Obama regime fails in its duty of holding accountable those responsible, no matter how highly placed in the administration, even to the president himself, then the regime loses all claims of legitimacy, and must be abolished. We, the people, are duty-bound to restore the founders republic and our Constitution.

When one reflects on how an unqualified collectivist neophyte, of dubious ancestry, ascended to the presidency of the United States, with help from leftist originations such as Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or how a treasonous lying scoundrel was re-elected to the Senate from the state of Nevada, with help from a corrupt Service Employees International Union, the ballot box may no longer be an option.

Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it.

John R. Arndell

Dayton

Bicyclists need to follow rules of the road too

The recent article in the Nevada Appeal regarding bike riding in the city and the need to be safety-conscious around the bicyclists overlooks one very important point. What about the need for the bicyclists to follow the rules of the road and accept responsibility for their own safety?

I frequently see bicyclists ignore stop signs. Just recently, I was driving south on Division, and when I approached King Street, two bicyclists were approaching the intersection with Division. Not only did they ignore the stop sign on King, they were going so fast they had to swing out into my lane of travel instead of staying to the right. I didn't see either one of them look in my direction.

When was the last time you saw a bicyclist walk their bike across a crosswalk? I believe that is still a traffic ordinance in Carson City. Passing on the right in the same lane of travel is illegal for drivers; it should also be so for bicyclists.

Remember, in any collision of a bike with an auto, the bike will come out second best. It doesn't do you any good to be right if you're dead right.

Motorcyclists have to licensed, why not a test for licensing bicyclists? After all, they share our roadways.

I am not an anti-bicycle person. I used to ride my bicycle to work almost every day in the summer. I just think we need to make the bicyclists equally responsible for their own safety.

Don Gurney

Carson City

What jobs did tax cuts create?

The Republicans keep saying that tax increases kill jobs. Well, the Bush tax cuts for the rich and middle class have been in force for 10 years now. Where are the jobs, Republicans?

Michael Hughes

Gardnerville

Voters have failed to find right people for the job

Folks, I find it hard to believe that out of some 500 elected officials in Washington, D.C., that no one can figure out how to get the economy rolling again.

They hire experts, they have the president's czars, yet the economy is rolling downhill. They can't figure out how to bring oil prices down, nor how to get our folks back to work.

Maybe you and I are to blame. You know we put them in office, and we are responsible. The elected officials can only worry about getting re-elected so they can keep their job, and we as a group are stupid enough to re-elect them.

Try calling our elected officials here in Nevada. You are asked to push button after button, and then you find out you must write a letter or email, and when they want to, you might get an answer.

You would think somewhere in the 500 elected officials there would be one smart enough to solve our oil shortage problem, our unemployment problem, our housing problem and all the others.

They can raise money to stay in office by making promises they do not intend to fulfill, but they do keep their job.

Maybe we as American voters should really look into the ability the person has before voting for them.

You know it is our job to put people in office who will perform in a way that is good for us and the USA. So far we have failed.

Bill Beil

Carson City