“I believe that we should enforce the current gun laws. We don’t need any more gun laws, and I believe that if you want to do something productive, do away with these violent video games that the kids are subject to. That would be much more productive than putting new laws on the public, and restricting Americans’ rights.”
— Hagerstown
“This is to the city of Hagerstown and the elected officials, and your engineering department. Nice article, Herald-Mail, on the old power plant. Property’s worth $176,000, it’s an eyesore. They keep talking about asbestos. They better be looking at the mercury and the PCP, and all the coal and lead dust that’s been over the years out there. That is a problem, because they used to put all those transformers on the ground out there.”
— Leitersburg
“I’d like to thank the city police for responding so quickly to my neighborhood, about a suspicious character walking around in people’s backyards. Well, it turned out to be totally innocent, thank goodness, but if this individual that was doing this had some kind of a marking on his truck, or maybe even the coat he was wearing, stating who he was working for, I wouldn’t have had a problem. In fact, I’d have gone out and probably talked to the gentleman. Had no ID on his vehicle or on his person designating who he was or where he worked, which he should have, I think. Nothing would have happened at all. But being a vigilant citizen, I called the police, and they reacted.”
— Hagerstown
“Ninety-nine percent of all the people; students, teachers, etc., have been shot and killed by crazies, in areas classified as no-gun zones. Common sense tells me don’t legislate guns, legislate the nutbags. Get rid of the crazies, solve the problem.”
— Boonsboro
“I was wondering when the people of Waynesboro are going to get rid of the borough council. First they have to get rid of Lloyd Hamberger, and then the two ... councilmen that are on there, and then the other four that are left, explain to them why they are there.”
— Waynesboro, Pa.
“Roughly 10,000 people are killed with guns each year in the U.S. Fewer than 100 are killed per year in any other industrialized country. So pro-gun people, you have a choice, you have to admit that Americans don’t have the moral character of people of those nations, or it’s the guns. Pro-gun people are often proponents of ‘American Exceptionalism.’ Apparently that exceptionalism doesn’t extend to the ability to settle disagreements without resorting to shooting someone. If you truly believe that Americans are basically a good people, then you have to admit that the guns must be part of the problem.”
— Fairfield, Pa.
“I saw a gentleman on the news today from Waynesboro, Va. He was a Christmas tree farmer, until the zoning board came out and told him that he could not sell Christmas trees on his property, because it was not zoned commercial. However, this man was going to take the proceeds for the Christmas trees and give them to the children’s cancer institute, and he was also going to give some of the homeless people some of the money, in Waynesboro, Va. And he was going to give poor people free trees, which he had been known to do in the past. When are people going to stand up for our rights? We’re getting more and more like communists every day, more and more under this administration.”
— Waynesboro, Pa.
“I pay my bills and live within my means. That makes me sympathetic to the Tea party. For that, I am viewed as an extremist.”
— Halfway
“I saw one of the most disgusting things in my life this afternoon, that president of the NRA. It’s only been a week since those babies have been killed, babies, and he had the utter gall to stand up there and say we need more guns, we need more guns for the good guys.”
— Hagerstown
“This is to the person who said their electric bill went from $73 to $117, and they had a heat pump. Don’t they realize that our days are longer; they’re using more electric for lights? And also, you’re setting the thermostat for the heat. And it doesn’t matter whether you have one person, two persons or three persons, you still are using more heat. That’s why her bill is higher.”
— Williamsport
“I’m a supporter of the JFK run, but then again, I also sympathize and support the people who are complaining about stuff being thrown in their yards, and the total disrespect by some — some, not all — of the participants. I think these people have a legitimate complaint, and something should be done. If the people are going to be that ignorant while they’re running that ... It’s just like when people have yard sales. The people that attend yard sales, they don’t care where they park, how they park, what property they trespass on. But I do support the complainers that have legitimate complaints about the JFK run.”
— Hagerstown
“I am so tired of John Boehner blaming the president for everything that is happening, when it is the Republicans who are still doing the same thing that they have done for the last two years. The man won. I didn’t vote for him, but he won. So let’s get together and show some (non)partisanship, and not this business of ... sounds like a bunch of little 2-year-olds saying ‘I want, I want, I want,’ and that’s what John Boehner sounds like, ‘I want,’ a little 2-year-old.”
— Falling Waters, W.Va.
“I would like for somebody nationwide to take up a petition to sign to get President Obama to run, be able to run for a third term ... one of the best presidents we’ve ever had. And he thinks an awful lot of children, takes care of them, and he’s for the poor and the middle class.”
— Hagerstown
“If you want to see some really, really beautiful Christmas lights and displays, go back to the Greenberry subdivision off Virginia Avenue. It is simply beautiful.”
— Hagerstown
“Here is a suggestion for our schools: All entrance doors and glass be bulletproof. Have all with cameras. One or two people in the school, depending on the size of the school, who knows weapons, carry any small type of firearm. Problem would probably be solved.”
— Jefferson County, W.Va.
“This is in response to the front-page article in The Herald-Mail on Dec. 22, 2012, concerning the NRA and school safety. I can’t believe the sheriff’s response of an armed guard in every school will not work, because the would-be shooter would know that an armed guard is present. Well, isn’t that what it’s all about? They know an armed guard is present, and they stay away. My goodness, just think how different things may have been at Newtown.”
— Hancock
“I feel a lot of Americans have lost respect for one another. I think it’s really ridiculous how a lot of you motorists out there rush around to get to here and there, wherever you need and want to go, not showing any respect at all to anyone, probably not even yourselves. Especially this time of year, Christmastime, that is. Yeah, I feel it’s uncalled for, for you people to rush into these stores. You people lose the true meaning of the holiday, Christmas, along with other holidays also.”
— Greencastle, Pa.
“Ordinarily I disagree with most of David Limbaugh’s thinking, but his column on Dec. 22 was perfect. It was an entirely different David Limbaugh.”
— Halfway
