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The potholes on 23rd Street SE going toward Fishers are really bad. There's so many holes. It's terrible. And also State Street, too, the potholes are really bad also.

The NCAA ought to crack down on some of these schools that are breaking rules like Arizona and Louisville. There ought to be a stiffer punishment for each one of these schools.

There are thousands of kids that are scared to go to school. Our government has let them down and not provided safe schools for our children. I hope the Republicans and the NRA — all they want is dead bodies. They don't care as long as they can have their assault rifles. The Constitution guarantees us the right to bear arms, but it does not guarantee the right to own an assault weapon. How many more kids have to die before Republicans will acknowledge we need a ban on the assault weapons? Our children don't even matter to them.

Here's a good idea for people who want to own these lovely assault weapons and weapons of mass killing ability. They have to have insurance. If they buy the weapon, they should automatically be required to have a policy put on owning that gun so if they, or if somebody steals their gun and uses it to kill people, then they're liable and they can be sued. You can't put a vehicle on the road without insurance. So these gun owners want to own all these guns, you should have to have an insurance policy on every gun, and they should have to be renewed every year.

I don't think Billy Graham should be at the Capitol for viewing. I don't think he should be. He wasn't military. He wasn't an elected official. He was an evangelist. He did not support gay rights, and that is why the Republicans are using him. The alt-right is praising Graham for his anti-gay stand. He was against gay marriage. I don't think Billy Graham should be in the Rotunda. Just bury the man.

I would like to start off with saying that my heart and prayers go out to these families that are losing their children, either in mass shootings or suicides. It's been rampant in Stark County, and it's so sad. As far as people who want to take a shout out at President Trump: up until he became president, he was just like you and me. He had nothing to do with these gun laws and regulations that are in order, but he's definitely going to be the solution. So you opportunist that want to yell and scream at him, remember up until he became president he was a businessman. He made none of these decisions. If you want to scream and yell at somebody, yell at the president who was our president for the last eight years. This is not a new problem. ... We need to look to Jesus, and we need to give solutions for all Americans to keep us all safe and protected. I challenge everybody to get off the "hate Trump" train and take a stand for what we're really fighting for.

I am so tired of our people in Congress and the senators and everybody that are trying to gain accolades yelling at President Trump about these shootings. He did not create these laws. People need to back down and get their facts right. Maybe stand behind the man that's actually going to do something. If you look back and see what he's accomplished in the short time that he's been president, even up against people that were going to say 'no' to him even if it's good for the American people just because he was a Republican. Come on. This needs to end. ... Who called out President Obama on the gun controls? Who was yelling and screaming at him? I don't believe anybody because everybody was so afraid to do anything because he was a black president.

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