If the city of Las Cruces would enforce their noise ordinance for vehicles and their cell phone ordinance, they would have all the money in the world. You see these young men and young women driving up and down our streets, talking on the phone and texting. These people are driving and are not paying attention.

A couple of questions about the schools that were burglarized. After the first burglary, why wasn't your security increased a hundred-fold? And second of all, why do you have $1,400 in the school overnight? That is just totally careless.

I am an 81-year-old retired senior and it really upsets me to know that the Munson Center is going to be closed on Saturdays and they are going to be taking a lot of stuff out of the Munson Center, yet they will let all these young kids stay on welfare and do nothing.

When is the city going to put up a sign indicating that both lanes coming north on Del Rey, turning left onto the Bataan Memorial West, are left turn only? Every single day, someone nearly hits me by coming from the left lane to the right lane during a turn. We need to improve the sign.

Just watched on TV where Steve Pearce and the House Republicans just walked out without voting on anything, and we are that much closer to going over the fiscal cliff. What are we doing in Washington, Steve?

Mayor Miyagishima, guns don't kill people. People kill people. Look at Juarez, where no guns are legal. Highest crime rates in the U.S. are in L.A. and Chicago. Both have the strictest gun laws. Banning guns would not help.


Unless America requires psychological evaluation on everyone buying a gun, the most logical and realistic approach is to limit the sale of 30-bullet clips and rapid-fire rifles that killed 26 people in a matter of minutes in Connecticut, shooting a 6-year-old 11 times.

The right to bear arms is there because it is the first line of defense against tyranny, not just for hunting. Assault weapons are the modern day musket in America.

A law to enforce the background checks at gun shows, banning assault weapons plus clips with more than 10 bullets will be introduced in the Senate in January. Will Republicans again fold to the NRA?

The largest population of the United States is against the high-powered rifles as well as AK-47's etc. I think we are larger than the NRA, so the NRA should have nothing to do with it.

Please continue to publish Mr. Harbison's excellent analysis of the sad condition of our country and possibly even the world.

Four employees of the U.S. State Department have been fired because of the debacle in Benghazi, but the person responsible for the death of the four Americans, Hillary Clinton, has gone into hiding claiming illness.

The tax cut expiration was passed by a Republican majority in the House and Senate, and signed by a Republican president. Yet, somehow Republican's manage to think of it as "Obama demands tax increase."

I bet the person who is already complaining that it is going to cost money for Obama's next presidential inauguration would have had no problem if only another person was to take the oath.

The bailout of General Motors and their unions has cost American taxpayers $25 billion. This estimate is from the Treasury Dept. In addition, $2.9 billion was lost in the Chrysler bailout. This is how President Obama has wasted taxpayer dollars.