Give credit score to GOP conservatives within the vote

Is there a Democrat within the Home who has the braveness to oppose Democratic management as 20 Republican radicals do to their very own?

You may condemn them for doing what they did with the vote of the speaker of the Home, however apparently they have been doing it for what they believed was finest for the nation, not the social gathering. [“Fragile grip on power,” News, Jan. 8]. Within the earlier Congress, former Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi bulldozed all Democrats.

—Bernard McGrath, Holbrook

“I do not need to see the Republican Occasion go to political victory over the 4 horsemen of slander – worry, ignorance, bigotry and slander -” Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) stated within the “Assertion of Conscience” Senate. speech in 1950

Smith was a rational Republican, unafraid to talk out to his colleagues who cringed earlier than Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy and the brutal smear ways that characterised the Crimson Scare of the time. He had the braveness to talk the reality to energy and remained a senator till 1973.

Seventy years later, the fragility of democracy stays palpable as one other McCarthy, Kevin, and a bunch of harmful Republicans now threaten to throw a wrench within the Home of Representatives.

Historical past rhymes. It will likely be seen how acceptable their couplets and measures are to a earlier interval. Will courageous Republicans be part of forces with Democrats to revive order within the subsequent two years?

In the event you’re not sure or feeling downright scared, you are a good pal.

– Nick Santora, Roslyn Hills

Now, grandma has to fret in regards to the youngsters

I walked to highschool within the snow and rain. I used to be 6 years outdated. I lived between Dawn Freeway and Merrick Highway. There was no college bus in Lynbrook, after which a crosswalk guard arrived. I walked to the furthest level north in my college district. Generally there have been different neighborhood youngsters with me, however principally I used to be alone. Was my mom frightened? Was Dad pondering of me on his method into city on the Lengthy Island Railroad Highway?

I’ve 6 12 months outdated grandchildren. They get on the bus like my 7-, 8-, and 10-year-olds. Now, bus or not, I am frightened about them [“Shooting by boy ‘intentional,’ ” Nation, Jan. 10]. There are curfew drills at college. Will a hitman get in someway? Will a 6-year-old “argue” along with his trainer and shoot him?

Will we ever have significant gun management? Most likely not in my life. That is embarrassing.

— Susan Hennings Lowe, Huntington

Soccer continues to be a hazard to all its gamers

Whereas I am not a soccer fan myself, I used to be relieved to see Buffalo Payments’ Damar Hamlin recovering from a critical blow to the chest “Hamlin is coming dwelling”, Sports activities, Jan 10].

Nonetheless, this doesn’t imply that soccer is a secure sport. With the aid of this improvement, let’s not lose sight of the opposite risks and extra essential risks of soccer.

The crushing and tragic results of repeated arduous blows to the pinnacle, even whereas carrying a helmet, persists in CTE, persistent traumatic encephalopathy. The results are usually not instantly noticeable, however finally present up, typically years later, as extreme, irreversible and debilitating mind harm. It is all the time been like that, however we have solely been placing all of it collectively in recent times.

Let’s not lose sight of this, with aid from Hamlin’s restoration. Soccer stays a harmful sport, and its proficient stars put their sanity and their lives in danger each time they step onto the pitch.

— Lee Ann Silver, Shoreham

Evaluate stats earlier than deer searching

Editorial selling deer searching over humane contraception to scale back street crashes wants convincing statistics [“More hunting of deer is needed,” Opinion, Dec. 30]. What is required is the comparative variety of accidents and deaths attributable to DWI, reckless driving, the speed of human encroachment into wildlife, and the proportion of failure of deer contraception measures. It is time for governing our bodies to think about the affect of searching on the human thoughts amid rising violence on Lengthy Island.

Medical measures are usually not utilized to people with out being examined on hundreds of animals. Bow and arrow searching not solely kills deer violently, but additionally exhibits an absence of respect for all times.

As Pythagoras stated, “So long as males slaughter animals, they may even kill one another. Certainly, he who sows homicide and ache can’t reap pleasure and love.”

— Dr. Sharada Jayagopal, East Williston