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Gun Raffle Bill Is Misguided And Harmful

To The Reader’s Forum: Having read this mornings P-J article on the new proposed law for New York state concerning gun raffles, I feel the need to write this. Countless clubs and associations use raffles to augment their budgets. Dues and fees just don’t create the capital to run a club. As a gun owner and shooting sport enthusiast this really hits home with me. I have been a member of the Jamestown Rifle Club for better than 40 years. I was treasurer for 25 years. I think I have a pretty good handle on the running of a small self-sufficient club. We keep our dues structure ...

Reader Disagrees With State Abortion Law

To The Reader’s Forum: Isn’t it amazing at how much publicity has been dedicated to controlling the problem of weed growth and the demise of our lake, but not until January 27 did we realize that our state Legislature was even discussing abortion? Of all days to publish this news the Post-Journal chose Sunday. So now our glorious state is not only the leader of killing babies by aborting them, it has made the procedure even more available and, I might add, more dangerous. This new law cancels the previous in that a woman ned not be in a hospital. Any storefront will do. The ...

The True Importance Of Character

To The Reader’s Forum: First, I would like to thank Dr. Victor for his editorial. It scared me until I read the whole thing. When I was a kid, we were taught if you are honest and do the right thing, you will be rewarded. This is called “character.” When we watched “Gunsmoke” on TV, Matt always won at the end because he did the right and honest thing. This is called “Character.” On “Father Knows Best” and “Leave It To Beaver,” the parents always taught the children the honest and fair thing to do. We learned “Character.” When the Americans and the ...

We Celebrate Birthdays Of Two Great Presidents

To The Reader’s Forum: This month our nation celebrates the birthdays of perhaps our two greatest presidents, the 18th century father and the 19th century preserver of our republic. The following letter, to Mrs. Bixby, was written by the second of these men after he had been re-elected President of the United States with a majority of the electrocal College of 212 to 21. The empathy, humility and eloquence contained in his words could not, in my opinion, be duplicated by any other leader in our history. The text is as follows: Executive Mansion Washington, Nov. 21, ...

Comedy Center Would Benefit From New Signs, Parking Enforcement

To The Reader’s Forum: Last Friday our daughter came up from Pittsburgh with the intention of touring the Comedy Museum. She grew up here and although her adult life has been in Pittsburgh, she found it difficult to get to the museum. She never saw a sign with instruction as to where, exactly, she should turn to be in front of the building nad was frustrated with Second Street being one way. Something should be posted, for example, on Third going into town that best access would be to turn right on the street before the ice arena. Certainly, people in charge should start at ...

Cuomo Has Opened The Legislative Floodgates

To The Reader’s Forum: Instead of producing an economic and moral environment conducive for citizens to move to New York, our governor has another agenda to impose. Cuomo not only has “legally” erased distinctions between genders, he just passed a law to erase the lives of more babies. The law goes soft on criminals for assaulting a pregnant woman which kills the baby she wants. It allows an abortion up to seconds before birth and for whatever reason, like the baby emotionally traumatizing the woman for being the “wrong” sex. The invasive procedure doesn’t even require ...