To the editor: The Times published a letter from a doctor who expressed his disgust at Vice President Kamala Harris' laughter for shooting an intruder in her home and proclaimed that he will vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein in protest.
Does he simply not understand that a vote for Stein is essentially a vote for former President Trump, and to what extent would society's concern about guns and gun violence flourish under another Trump administration?
In 2016, nearly 132,000 people in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania voted for Stein. Hillary Clinton lost these three states by a combined margin of about 80,000 votes. If those principled, environmentally conscious alleged Stein voters had voted for Clinton, we would have avoided Trump's divisiveness, incompetence, and hate these past eight years.
Let's not let that happen again. Use your views on guns and the gun lobby's misuse of the Second Amendment to call on Congress and state legislatures to work to end the gun violence epidemic in America.
Please don't let perfection be the enemy of informed judgment.
Michael Schneider, Truckee, California.
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To the editor: Every time I read about someone casting a “protest vote” in the upcoming presidential election, I wonder what they are protesting.
Are they protesting for women's right to reproductive freedom? Are they protesting for the right to vote in free and fair elections? Are they protesting for democracy itself?
Any so-called protest vote is not a protest at all. It's a vote for the disgraced former president who wants to be king.
Rhys Thomas, Glen Valley
