Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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President Trump is considering a ban on the sale of flavored electronic cigarettes after six people died.

Yet, data from respected studies all conclude that on average, the presence of a semiautomatic weapon in a shooting is associated with four deaths instead of two.

Hundreds have died or been hurt with these weapons. Yet, no ban on them is being proposed by the White House or the GOP-controlled Senate.

How many more innocent lives must be cut short before the NRA loosens its grip on our elected officials?

María-Elena López,

Coral Gables

Note from KBJ: Which constitutional amendment confers a right to vape, Maria-Elena?

The Taliban has never been hit harder than it is being hit right now. Killing 12 people, including one great American soldier, was not a good idea. There are much better ways to set up a negotiation. The Taliban knows they made a big mistake, and they have no idea how to recover!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 14, 2019

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Re “Commerce chief threatened firings at NOAA” (Page A2, Sept. 10): Who but a self-hypnotized, diehard follower could possibly believe Donald Trump when he said, “I don’t know,” in response to questions over who misrepresented an outdated Hurricane Dorian weather map with a Sharpie pen, his favorite writing instrument?

It’s a federal crime to falsify an official weather forecast, especially one concerning potential matters of life or death. And it is beyond Orwellian to compound such as crime by having Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, a consummate Trump sycophant, threaten to fire weather service staff unless they supported Trump’s lies, to avoid bruising the weatherman in chief’s delicate ego.

Meanwhile, Trump launches into a familiar persecution diatribe, outrageously seeking an apology from the news media for exposing his lies, while he utters nary a word about Dorian’s real victims: Bahamians who’ve lost everything. (Could that be because they’re black?)

We are living out a version of “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” but with no end in sight, because not one Republican of any supposed moral authority (this means you, Robert Mueller, and you too, James Mattis) is courageous enough to play the role of the child in the fable and finally blurt out the truth: that Trump’s ubiquitous criminality is that of a garden-variety fascist, requiring his immediate removal from office.

Bryan L. Tucker Jamaica Plain

Note from KBJ: Stop projecting your racism, fascism, and criminality onto President Trump, Bryan.

….VERY stupidly negotiated Trade Deals, and Illegal Immigration, are a tremendous cost and burden to our Country. They are BOTH coming along very well and someday, in the not too distant future, America will see a very positive change. Remember, America First!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 13, 2019

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