PUBLIC FORUM : GOOD JOB.Re ``Teen's anti-violence essay honors parents' lesson'' (Oct. 12): Opened my paper this morning and was happy to see an article about a good teen-ager for a change. Too many times we see only the bad. I wanted to thank the Daily News for making this a front page article and to thank the parents, Alberto and Lupe, for doing such a wonderful job of raising their son Daniel with love and understanding and teaching him the difference between right and wrong and not letting peer pressure guide you in the wrong direction. We need more children like Daniel, but most of all we need many more parents like Alberto and Lupe Gonzales. Thank you. - Lou Williams Palmdale. Who's responsible? The self-aggrandizing article by James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California in Sunday's Viewpoint ``Stop gun violence'' does not contain anything that to me remotely suggests how gun violence can be lessened by his lawsuit. It is the usual appeal to the voters - picture some school shooting
Currently, all firearms retailers must have a federal firearms license A Federal Firearms License, or FFL, is a license that enables an individual or a company to engage in a business pertaining to the manufacture of firearms and ammunition or the interstate and intrastate sale of firearms. and, in the city of Los Angeles
A bona fide purchaser is one who purchases property for a valuable consideration that is inducement for entering into a contract and without suspicion of being store. In the city of Los Angeles you can not get a federal firearms license without having a city business license. Therefore I would ask, whose responsibility is it to oversee and police gun dealers in the city of Los Angeles? To me it looks like Mr. Hahn and Janet Reno Janet Reno (born July 21, 1938) was the first and to date only female Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001). She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11. , but then they do not want to take any responsibility in this area as it is politically more profitable to blame someone else for their shortcomings A shortcoming is a character flaw. Shortcomings may also be:
- Roger T. Stephens Sr. Winnetka New cash cow Cash Cow 1. One of the four categories (quadrants) in the BCG growth-share matrix that represents the division within a company that has a large market share within a mature industry. 2. Los Angeles City Attorney The Los Angeles City Attorney is an elected official whose job is to prosecute all of the misdemeanor criminal offenses within the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. James Hahn (``Stop Gun Violence,'' Viewpoint, Oct. 10) wants us to believe the motives behind his lawsuit against gun manufacturers are to reduce gun violence and to ``protect the children'', the battle cry of every liberal cause. Hahn, as the city of Los Angeles' chief prosecutor, wants to shift attention away from the fact that lack of enforcement and prosecution of violations of laws already on the books is the main problem that perpetuates gun violence. He would rather convince us that more laws restricting the ability of law-abiding people to own firearms and illogical lawsuits are the answers. If Hahn's motives were so pure, wanting to prevent needless deaths and ``protecting the children'', he would be suing both the alcohol and automobile industry automobile industry, the business of producing and selling self-powered vehicles, including passenger cars, trucks, farm equipment, and other commercial vehicles. . Individually, they account for more deaths every year than firearms. With Proposition 13 restricting the politicians' ability to tax us without our permission, they are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. other sources of revenue to support their liberal programs. Gun manufacturers have been targeted to be the next ``cash cow.'' - John R. Schlank Granada Hills Survivors still kicking Re ``Continue building Belmont'' (Viewpoint, Oct. 10): The writer tells us we should continue building the Belmont Learning Center This Belmont Learning Center contains information about a building currently under construction. It may contain information of a speculative nature, and the content may change dramatically as construction progresses and new information becomes available. because 120 of the Central Junior High and Belmont High graduates from the 1920s and 1940s are ``still alive and kicking alive and vigorously active. See also: kicking .'' That's great. Now let's hear from the students who didn't survive the pollutants. Oh . . . Sorry . . . they're dead. Keep in mind, there are thousands of your generation that have survived car crashes without seat belts, World War II and polio. That doesn't mean these are good things we'd like to repeat. What would you say to the parents of a child who dies because he or she attends the Belmont Learning Center? - Michael Guetzow Woodland Hills Pardon her, prize him Ever since he didn't share in the Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. in 1978 along with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin Noun 1. Menachem Begin - Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992) Begin , Jimmy Carter has been a man on a mission. In his latest attempt at self-anointed sainthood, he is asking that Bill Clinton pardon Patty Hearst. As humanitarian gestures go, it's not much, but I say if it means that much to him, give her the pardon and give him the damn prize. Although for the life of me, the money aside, I don't see the big deal in winning a prize that has gone to such peaceniks as Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho Le Duc Tho 1911-1990. Vietnamese political leader who negotiated the North Vietnamese-U.S. cease-fire (1973) with Henry Kissinger. Both were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1973), but Le Duc Tho refused it on the grounds that peace was not yet established and Yasir Arafat - Burt Prelutsky Van Nuys Dumping on the school Re ``Dumping on the Valley'' (Oct. 3): I almost choked on the noisome stench when I read Arnie Berghoff's (Browning Ferris Industries spokesman for the Sunshine Canyon Landfill) statement ``extensive studies show the landfill will have no effect on the air quality at those schools.'' Won't somebody please tell City Councilman Michael Feuer that putting in new air conditioners at Van Gogh Elementary School would be a huge waste of time and money. The students and staff at Van Gogh Elementary have been lucky to have had air conditioning for over 25 years, including our newly rebuilt post-earthquake facility. The more serious problem is that even air conditioners with filtration systems cannot safeguard students, parents and staff members from the ``potentially devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. consequences of particulate pollution'' when we are not indoors. Students are exposed to outside air for at least 65 minutes a day during recess and lunch. Children are active on the playground before and after school. During physical education they run harder and breathe even deeper. We don't want to become the next toxic school. What's the use of installing a monitoring system at Van Gogh, if the the L.A. City Council still refuses to pay to haul L.A.'s refuse far away? What's next, a plastic dome? - Harvey Abram Teacher Van Gogh Elementary School Honk honk Pediatrics A widely-transmitted precordial whoop, described as a high-pitched, musical, late systolic murmur in some Pts with mitral valve prolapse–MVP, a sound attributed to resonation of the valve leaflets and chordae; non-honkers with MVP may be made if you like him It is apparent to me that we are becoming ridiculous in being participants in a new kind of contest - that of suggesting who might make a good president. OK, my vote would be for Harpo Marx if he was available. He would have been as good a choice as any in the present lineups. At least he would have kept his mouth shut. - Michael Cryder North Hills Most money wins! What a wonderful country! Anyone can run for the presidency! Donald Trump, Oprah Winfrey, Pat Buchanan, Cybil Shepard, Warren Beatty, Ross Perot, Jeese Ventura and let's not forget Al Gore, Bill Bradley, George Bush and John McCain. Quite a roster of characters, isn't it? Can it be that our citizens have finally told the politicians that they're all washed up? When will our so-called representatives realize that the voters have lost complete confidence in them and that's the reason why the voter turnout is disgraceful. So, of all the above aspirants, it looks like the one with the most money has the best chance of becoming president. Is that what our Founding Fathers wanted when they wrote the Constitution? There must be someone in this country who can run for election on the ``No need for money or special interest'' ticket. Colin Powell, please step up and save our country! - Earl D. Horwitz North Hills To the last puff I have long held the theory that in spite of overwhelming proof of potentially fatal health problems and, regardless of the cost of tobacco, the percentage of smokers will eventually decline to an irreducible irreducible /ir·re·duc·i·ble/ (ir?i-doo´si-b'l) not susceptible to reduction, as a fracture, hernia, or chemical substance. ir·re·duc·i·ble adj. 1. number. Your letter writer (``Taxes up in smoke,'' Oct. 8) has proven me to be right by describing how she and her friends take turns driving to Laughlin, Nev., to buy 30 odd cartons of cigarettes, a round trip of over 500 miles, just to avoid the $5 per carton California tax. Are these people crazy? They are saving $150 on 30 cartons of cigarettes in a determined effort to continue to damage their health and they want California taxpayers to worry about losing revenge to Nevada? The die-hard smokers will always have irrelevant complaints to direct attention away from their inability, or unwillingness to give up their dangerous and unpopular habit. However, my theory is flawed because that irreducible number will decline due to fatalities resulting from smoking. - Harlan Campbell Tujunga Ranking officers Does Sheriff Lee Baca outrank out·rank tr.v. out·ranked, out·rank·ing, out·ranks To rank higher than. outrank Verb to be of higher rank than (someone) Verb 1. Chief Bernard Parks? I note Baca wears five stars, (like generals of the Army Eisenhower, Marshall, Bradley and Admiral of the Fleet Ad·mi·ral of the Fleet n. In both senses also called Fleet Admiral. 1. The highest rank in the U.S. Navy, equivalent to General of the Army. 2. One who holds this rank. Nimitz) and Parks ``only'' rates four stars (like Army Gens. Patton, Powell and Clark). Why is there this distinction? In fact, why do these departments even use such military rankings? - Sol Taylor Sherman Oaks Better to be prepared Re your article ``Look, up in the Sky!'' (Oct. 3) and the accompanying photo of the ``thing'' (missile test) we saw in Saturday night's sky, noted that ``Peace activists who demonstrated outside the base a week ago denounced the testing as preparing for war. They planned a demonstration Saturday.'' Well, isn't it better to be prepared for war than unprepared? What do they want, another Pearl Harbor, where we were caught with our pants down? If an enemy missile did succeed in blowing up part of America, those same demonstrators would be the first to whine, ``Where was our defense system?'' - Ann Fields Los Angeles CAPTION(S): photo PHOTO Daniel Gonzales, 13, with his mother, Lupe, shows a copy of his winning essay on preventing violence. John Lazar/Staff Photographer |
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