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Letters to the editor: Hillary warned us about Trump

Hillary warned us about Trump

POTUS bragged about going after married women, grabbing females by the genitals because he was a star. He claims he was too smart to serve in Vietnam, using bone spurs as an excuse for the draft dodging coward he is every day. His Vietnam war according to him was unprotected sex while Johnny was off serving his nation. Now he's tweeting that he'll rid the U.S. military of transgender volunteers because they cost too much (one-fifth of his personal travel expenses vacation weekends) and disrupt unit moral and cohesion. He's lying of course, he's never served, never drank from a Lister bag, ate from a mess kit, slept in a tent, buried a GI buddy. Military experience? None! Intellect? None! Conscience? Funny. Every day our country gets embarrassed, shamed by a scared, incompetent fraud. Hillary warned us he was unprepared, incompetent why didn't "we" believe her?

— Michael Benesch, Gulf Breeze

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Restoring felons’ voting rights absurd

So some people would like to make it easier to restore voting rights to felons. After all, it is a fundamental right of citizenship. But how much of this move is intended to restore a right, and how much is it intended to swell Democrat voter rolls? Restoring felons' voting rights has been a Democrat program for a couple of decades now.

How about a compromise? In Heller v District of Columbia in 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that owning a firearm is a fundamental constitutional right. Why limit rights restoration to just one topic? If a felon should have the right to vote, he or she should also have a right to own a firearm. After all, rights are rights.

And as elections demonstrate, as much harm can be done with a vote as with a gun.

— Joe Waldron, USMC (ret), Pensacola