Owning arms is mentioned in the constitution. Driving cars (or anything else) is not. Therefore, a law that deprived a mentally-ill person of the privilege of driving would no more offend the Constitution than a law depriving of them the license to build buildings. Jim Graham is just trying to exploit sympathy for the mentally ill. It would be nice, just for once, if he could restrain his reflex to do things like that. The public interest sometimes calls for measures such as this. Millions of arrests have been made on the pretext of "saving lives" by stopping drug use. Yet, saving lives suddenly becomes unimportant when guns or cars are involved. This hypocrisy is part of the fabric of our society, but at least some of us can continue to shrug off the politics of pure emotion and keep pointing it out. America won't become less hypocritical by letting people shut us up by these appeals to the crowd. By the way, was Schmidt "trained to deal with the mentally ill by KILLING them"? I doubt it. And the access which this mentally-ill civilian had to weapons is obviously why both of them are dead. So now we're told that ACCESS is worth more than their lives. I don't think most people agree with that. But NRA politics are such that it doesnt MATTER what most people think. They will play on your fear, they will bribe your representatives, they WILL HAVE THEIR WAY. And nuts to you if you don't agree.
Web Site
The complaint was the site was "hard to use", but overall, the common suggestion is for missing CONTENT. Not the same thing. As to the warning that I won't "endear" myself, I took a lot at that in high school and pretty much decided that I loved truth more than untruthful friends. I tend to hang around with people who can handle truth. That's good enough for me. People who need flattery are just too stressful to deal with. And life presents all the stresses a normal person will ever need. I don't need to go hunting for more.
Going back to check, I find that I've used the city cite for property info, for phone numbers for elected officials, for crime statistics, for census information, for neighborhood information, all easily accessible from the home page. As for the city phone directory, if you go to City Hall, it lists all the departments that citizens normally need to contact via links on the lefthand side. So it seems to me that the NORMAL citizens' needs are well-handled with a couple of clicks. I, too, would like to know what specifically has failed in this layout. And, by the way, there is a feedback link at the bottom of the page where you can communicate to the webmaster. Have any of you used that? Seems like a complaint there would be much more useful than a complaint here.
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Jim Mork
Cooper Neighborhood
"whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness"----Declaration of Independence
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