To the editor: Thanks to the MAGA Republicans' constant drumbeat about Hunter Biden, I can finally sleep well. (“Hunter Biden found guilty of three felonies in gun case,” June 11)
Finally, a person deemed too dangerous to own a gun (for 11 days, seven years ago after lying on a form) has been publicly shamed and humiliated in a court of law! Pleaded guilty! I'm sure she will never be able to own a gun again.
Now, MAGA Republicans can glory without losing their “A” and “A+” ratings from the National Rifle Association!
Now they can again refuse to work on any reasonable compromise on something as irrational as universal background checks after school massacres and mass shootings because… Oh my God! – that could endanger someone's Second Amendment rights.
Yes, I'll sleep better tonight.
Stacey Cole, Lancaster
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To the editor: After Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York, President Biden seemed to take particular pleasure in calling the former president a “convicted felon.”
Now Trump can return the favor and label Hunter Biden, the president's only living son, a convicted felon.
Only in the United States!
David Tulanian, Henderson, Nevada.
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To the editor: This is exactly the kind of case that the NRA and our Republican leaders would use as a prime example of the infringement of our Second Amendment rights—that is, if the defendant were not so closely tied to the sitting president, who is a Democrat and candidate for re-election.
David Weiss, the prosecutor in the case, said no one in this country is above the law, not even this defendant. And he is right.
However, I remember a very different prosecution in 2021 for Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot three people (killing two of them) after arriving at a Black Lives Matter protest in Wisconsin armed with an assault rifle.
When Rittenhouse faced prosecution (because no one is above the law), Republicans celebrated him as a hero. Donations were made on behalf of his defense, and before the trial began, Judge Bruce Schroeder said Rittenhouse's illegal possession of the rifle would not be a factor in the case.
Is this what we mean by the phrase “justice is blind”?
Sara Vogel, Laguna Beach
