As a gun owner, and someone who has been the victim of violent crime, I am well aware that our police, sheriff deputies and law enforcement personnel cannot be everywhere at once. Public safety is both a community and personal responsibility.

As you cannot replace all pipes overnight, and as we bring in new and better pipes, sans leaks, rodents and other improvements, there will be cleaner water, and better water pressure, but also old pipes bursting.

The first nationally televised Presidential debate in 1960, carried simultaneously live on radio, was a gentlemanly contest between then U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, and Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, of California.

At some risk of over-simplification, the mass murder of 8 massage parlor workers and customers in Cherokee and Fulton counties was in fact an act of hate.