Letters To The Editor

At a time when the relationship between our public safety agencies is paramount, we need to consider who is best suited to work cooperatively as leader of our Sheriff’s Office going forward. Sheriff Bill Brown, without a doubt, has had a long and distinguished 40-year public safety career. However, the sheriff has lost the support […]

Thanks for publishing my letter entitled “Not the NRA” (March 29). But right under it you stick in the clueless “Speak Out” (March 29) Yellow Canary column. In my letter, I objected to the tyranny of the mob attacking the NRA for school disasters when the NRA has nothing to do with any of them. […]

It may be a revelation to some, but the Second Amendment doesn’t apply to gun stores. There is no constitutional right to manufacture or sell guns. And, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California ruled in 2017 that county governments have the right to restrict the location of gun stores. There are plenty […]

In the March 29 issue of the Sun, the cover story was “Never again: School shootings are a norm that some local students are no longer willing to accept.” I agree with the sentiment that shootings should not be the norm. But guns are not the issue. They will always be available. I do have […]

“The business of America is business!” said President Coolidge. But what are we doing to our most important enterprises? We favor, coddle, protect to the hilt the one business that is spelling doom for ALL other American money making—fossil fuel. We fight to bring back coal, oil, and natural gas even though they destroy the […]

The recent March for Our Lives rallies around the country focused their ire on guns and the National Rifle Association (NRA). The violence in schools and other public places is the result of deranged people who have some hidden or public agenda and think killing is a way to express that agenda. These break down […]

I had to wonder why you went to such trouble to compose your article “Time of Tumult” (March 15). It has been told many times. It was revisionism at its worst. Apparently you were using the Chumash Indians as your shill to promote your anti-oil agenda. The mission system did not harm the Indians, politics […]

The sand trap at Oceano’s Pier Avenue ramp proposed by the settlement between State Parks and SLO County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) is going to make our beach and community even uglier and noisier than it already is. The ramp itself should not even be there. It is illegal. It has been illegal for […]

The proponents of Measure T2018 say Santa Barbara County embarked on a yearlong process to review issues surrounding countywide marijuana grows. The two cities most impacted by the marijuana operators in our county, Carpinteria and Goleta, oppose the regulatory framework the county adopted to mitigate impacts from marijuana grows. Opposing Measure T isn’t about opposing […]

Gary Wechter, in his “criticism” entitled “Gun-free Australia” (March 8) wrote that another letter writer, Ken McCalip, “lied or failed to check his facts when he stated that since 1996, when Australia banned and confiscated certain types of weapons, they’ve had ‘zero’ mass shootings” and suggested McCalip “take the time” to check Google’s link to […]

Since the 1990s, some of the bigger developments on the Nipomo Mesa have imported a bunch of well-to-do NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard) who are out to eliminate the recreational activities in the Nipomo Dunes. Those activities have been long enjoyed by locals and visitors alike well before these newcomers moved into an area […]

Ken McCalip either lied or failed to check his facts when he stated that since 1996, when Australia banned and confiscated certain types of weapons, they’ve “had ‘zero’ mass shootings” (“Australia got tough,” March 1, New Times; see commentary). Had Mr. McCalip taken the time to perform a quick Google search, “mass murders in Australia,” […]