Try serious solution
Somehow in the legal system I believe we have a problem that promotes a repeat of serious crime. I noticed in some foreign countries, even if the criminal had a weapon but turned to run, apparently store clerks and whoever could still shoot at the criminal, and most importantly, the point is, even shoot them in the back. And we say, oh the poor criminal, he ran and wasn't threatening you anymore. Let him go.
Boo hoo.
And since we don't have this harsher "stop the criminal" ability like others, what's the result? The criminal feels lucky and goes to find some other target to try again until someone gets killed. Repeat crime over and over. This is a problem.
Other countries seem to have the more serious solution that if you try it, and even if you, the criminal, turn to run, facing me or not, there's a good chance you're not going to repeat this.
I hate to even bring it up. The criminal is like a cancer in society and yet laws baby it and care for it.
WILLIAM L. RAMSEY
Sherwood
Science is about data
After viewing AETN's amazing Nova program "Death Dive to Saturn" about the Cassini probe to study Saturn and its moons, I am left wondering about climate-change deniers' disjunct of logic.
Scientists designed, built, programmed, launched, and controlled the Cassini craft for 20 years. They were able to make adjustments to take advantage of opportunities during the voyage and gathered data that gives us insight into planet formation and clues as to the origin of the universe that will take decades to fully analyze.
Climate-change deniers don't believe that scientists can study, analyze and predict events here on earth, but they can probe planets and moons a billion miles away, gaining vast amounts of fact-based knowledge. Climate change is here and it appears human activity is responsible.
Science doesn't care what you believe--the collection of data speaks for itself.
GWEN BENNETT
Eureka Springs
What really happened
Hillary Clinton is on her book tour promoting her latest book, What Happened. I think this question is a bit rhetorical because the answer is obvious: We don't want another corrupt, sleazy politician running this country.
GARY LEMON
Cabot
He showed disrespect
As a father, when one of our kids goofed up, I spoke to the kid--in private. This Bret Bielema has shown disrespect to the kicker in print and electronic media. Bad move, B.
A.D. Jeff Long has, no doubt, come to rue the day he hired this guy. Dadgum buyouts!
Come to some sense, Jeff, and find a coach.
C.L. KOPS
Harrison
Send him to corner
Would it be politically incorrect to send the president of the United States to the timeout chair?
SUSAN FRANZ
Hot Springs Village
If it walks like a duck
When I was a lad, I was taught that part of hypocrisy was holding someone to one set of rules while believing that those same rules did not apply to oneself. Donald Trump has given yet another example of his hypocrisy by being critical of Jemele Hill's Twitter comments about Trump, arguing that she should apologize for calling him a white supremacist.
As others have pointed out, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, the conclusion is that it must be a duck.
Given his previous behaviors and statements, it is clear that Trump is in tune with white supremacist thought, even being praised by white supremacist leaders like David Duke. So, if truth is a defense for ESPN's Ms. Hill, she has no reason to apologize for what she thinks. She should, however, have not voiced her opinion in a public forum that might imply speaking for ESPN, and she has apologized for that.
In contrast, Trump has never apologized for mocking a physically challenged reporter at one of Trump's campaign events, has never apologized for disparaging the parents of a slain U.S. soldier of foreign background, has never apologized for trying to belittle John McCain's status as a hero during McCain's period of captivity in North Vietnam, and the list goes on.
It is clear that Trump wants to hold others to a different standard than what he holds himself to, which is no standard at all. As my mother helped me learn, he is a hypocrite.
BILL MOUROT
Little Rock
Let the games begin!
It is time that Jeff Long stop using decisions of the past to not have a game between the U of A and ASU. Both schools are state schools, our tax dollars at work, and if Jeff Long is so afraid of losing, then he is in the wrong job, making in excess of $1 million a year, which is far greater than he is worth.
I suggest that the issue be presented to our state Legislature, who are representatives of all the people and not just Jeff Long, and let them decide what is better for the state of Arkansas, and not someone that does not appreciate the important role that ASU plays in this state.
I am a Razorback fan, but fair is fair. Instead of letting the money go to weak schools out of the state, let it go to a state school that would help their programs. The taxpayers of this great state deserve better than what Long is giving us.
CHARLES HART
Little Rock
Editorial on 09/20/2017