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Published: March 16, 2009

Firearms Foresight

While it seems other readers found irony in placing a large ad for gun sales in a paper whose headline included at least two horrific examples of gun violence, I found the ad timely and appropriate.

Why should it be that only the wackos and criminals have firearms?

Waiting for armed police to arrive, several more innocents lost their lives.

Until we have such funding as to place police officers on every corner, I will hope that should such an incident occur near myself or my family, there be a responsible person amongst us who had the foresight to purchase one of those advertised firearms.

SEAN E. JEROME

Temple Terrace

Required Reading

Re: "Comment From Investors Business Daily" (Other Views, March 12):

Anyone with a banking background going back to late 1980s and early '90s knows that this article is dead on. Barney Frank, along with Chris Dodd and the Clinton administration, pushed banks and mortgage bankers to loosen requirements for making home loans then backed them up with Freddie and Fanny.

This article should be required reading for every mortgage holder in the United States.

Thanks for printing it, but it should have been front-page news.

HARVEY D. FREE

Apollo Beach

Tired Of Blair

I agree with the letter by Carol Wurmnest (Letters, March 13). I too am a Republican and was also tired of ex-commissioner Brian Blair trying to get rid of the Wetlands Management Division.

He was only interested in taking care of the builders in this area and was not listening to his constituents, who far outnumber the builders, which he now knows.

This ex-wrestler needs to get a real job! Stop whining.

Go to one of your builder friends, and maybe he can find you a job in a mud pit, wrestling bricks onto a mortar board.

GREGORY W. DAVIS

Tampa

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