Letters to the Editor for April 24, 2021

Prediction

About June 2022, China will invade and conquer Taiwan. The U.S. will do nothing. Statements from Biden will not fit the situation and seem out of place. The U.S. will explode with anger and batter Biden for action. Biden will stumble badly, issue few military orders, and will not protect Taiwan.

Weeks into the crisis Congress will have Biden examined and then declare he suffered a mental breakdown, and Harris will replace him.

By this time Taiwan will be controlled by China. On the issue of Taiwan, Harris will say it is a fait accompli and China now “owns” Taiwan. Harris will declare she isn’t going to start a nuclear war over the island. Nothing will be done to China for crushing Taiwan. One of the over-arching facts is the U.S. will hold mid-term elections in November 2022.

In another six months no one will be talking about the conquest of Taiwan as our press will ignore the issue. By 2024 Japan will start a military build-up of unprecedented proportions including nuclear weapons.

In June 2024 the world will be a much different place.

Alan Dale Daniel

Dayton

Disarmed

Since 1982, 952 people have been killed and 1,315 wounded in mass shootings. These statistics were compiled by Mother Jones and are from a Time magazine article updated April 16. While these numbers are appalling, they pale in comparison to the numbers killed in the name of share-the-wealth social engineering. In the last century alone more than 100 million were killed by authoritarian regimes once their citizenry was disarmed.

The left would end the Second Amendment and seize all guns to end the scourge of mass shootings, but to what end? Guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens deter crime and save lives and property. Gun laws only deter the lawful. By definition, criminals are undeterred by laws. So, criminals will still have guns. It is not surprising then that Chicago, one of many cities with strict gun laws, ended 2020 with 769 homicides.

The left’s intolerance for dissenting speech, and their authoritarian proclivities are chilling. Disarmed we are at the mercy of criminals, the mob and government tyranny. Without the means to defend ourselves and our families we are no longer free, we are grist for the mill.

Mike Rodgick

Carson City

Wear your mask

The Centers for Disease Control has repeatedly told the American public that the wearing of masks and social distancing will slow the transmission of the COVID-19 virus and save lives.

Unfortunately, a significant portion of the population continues to ignore this protocol and indeed, even refuse the potentially life-saving vaccines now available.

The good news (from a partisan point of view) is that most of these “ralcitrants” are Republicans, which bodes well for the Democrats in the next election cycle.

John O’Neill

Minden

Why a mask?

Gov. Sisolak is urging Nevadans to get the vaccine. He says this while wearing a face mask. He is fully vaccinated.

If getting the vaccine changes nothing, what's the point? Why aren't reporters asking him this obvious question during the press conferences? "Governor, why are you still wearing a mask? Don't you trust the vaccine?"

Don Manning

Carson City