- November 18, 2024
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Keep guns away from that guy
Dear Editor:
With regard to a recent letter from Dennis Glover regarding guns, I want to commend him for giving voice to my greatest concern — angry old men running around beautiful Palm Coast armed to the teeth. Because that's what our relatively safe and peaceful community needs: more guns in the hands of those citizens most likely to use them to fix all that they perceive to be wrong with our society.
About any study of the gun issue that I'm aware of, whether by the Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization or the countless studies by medical professionals, university researchers and other professionals, clearly indicate that we are most at risk of gun-related injury or death from people we know — friends, neighbors and relatives — not from criminals. Not one credible study that I've seen supports the conservative myth that more guns make people safer.
Of all the industrialized nations of the world, we have the most guns and have, by far, the most gun-related deaths.
Now to the issue of whether our local Sheriff’s Office will protect us, Mr. Glover indicates his belief that not only that they can't, but in fact, won't for some inexplicable reason. Seems in his opinion that there is some vast conspiracy to take his guns away, and part of that plot is to deny him protection.
This is not only ludicrous on the face of it, but deeply insulting to our deputies who daily put their lives on the line for him as they go about the business of serving this community. In fact, law enforcement officials across the country have called for some rational level of gun control, including registration of guns and ammunition, to help keep guns out of the hands of those who should not have them and to aid in criminal investigations.
But, Mr. Glover's perceived Second Amendment rights trump public safety.
Truth be known, I am more afraid of accidently bumping into Mr. Glover in a Publix isle than I am of being robbed in the parking lot.
Mike Cocchiola
Palm Coast
Hopeful that Hollingsworth can move to A1A
Dear Editor:
When I heard/read that there was a possibility that Hollingsworth Gallery might move from City Marketplace to State Road A1A, I have to admit I had mixed feelings. But as I learned more and more about Curator J.J. Graham’s plans, I became very excited about the potential change!
It reminded me of my discovery of Hollingsworth Gallery. I moved to Palm Coast seven years ago from the Washington, D.C., area. I was very used to a plethora of art galleries, and I began my search for the arts. A year of looking was rewarded by my discovery of Hollingsworth Gallery, and my soul was satisfied!
Just walking into the gallery, with its sights and smells, was calming. Over the years, my soul continued to be rewarded with the ever-changing scenes at the gallery. I have always been so excited by not only the art classes available for adults but particularly excited about opportunities for children's art classes.
J.J.'s visions are always exciting, and I am looking forward to the potential of his newest, expanded ideas. I urge the "powers that be" to seriously consider the move of the gallery to A1A. This move could enhance not only the arts in Flagler County, but also possibly create jobs related to J.J.'s ideas of concerts, coffee shop, festivals, etc. This particularly sounds like a move in a positive direction for our area.
Finally, one of my "soap boxes" has always been as much education as possible for everyone, and my admiration of Hollingsworth crosses over to J.J.'s commitment to education of the arts. With the demise of art in school systems across the nation, it is a wave of fresh air to find people and organizations who step up and fill the "art education" holes in a community.
Hopefully our community will be willing to continue to support art education by supporting the move of Hollingsworth to A1A!
Nancy Remmers
Palm Coast
