Sound Off for July 27, 2017

Documenting reality

Good article by Ben Wright on Columbus homicides. I substitute in middle schools. Among plenty of high achievers are also those who have confided in me about drugs and gangs influencing middle school kids.

Divine justice

Those Florida teens who laughed at and taunted a disabled man as he drowned might not be guilty of any crime, but we can all surely hope and pray that karma is real.

If we want to keep it strictly legit

Let's drop gerrymandering altogether and let only let true Americans vote in any political elections. Those would be Native Americans and their descendants. So ... what tribe are you with?

And this is shocking because ...

What a role model for the Scouts! Trump curses, insults Obama, and turns it into a political rally. Read the Scout laws and see how Trump, who was not a Scout, violated all of them.

What voter suppression?

Alabama poor can get photo IDs provided they can get to driver’s license location 30 miles away, provide “acceptable” identification and pay a token fee. If they can’t do all three — no vote!

This story was originally published July 26, 2017 at 3:17 PM with the headline "Sound Off for July 27, 2017."