Kirk Walters' editorial cartoon on April 30, “The First 100 Days of the Democratic Opposition”) depicted 100 “no” votes.

I don’t remember seeing a similar cartoon depicting the eight years of Republican opposition to President Barack Obama. Perhaps there was just not enough room on the page for 2,922 “no” votes. (That's 365 days times eight years, plus two leap years.)

JOHN MALKOSKI

Pheasant Lane

 

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Trump has U.S. on right path

Finally, after eight years, we have a real man in the White House. Donald Trump has done more good for this country in his first 100 days in office than Barack Obama would have ever done had he been able to serve 10 terms as president.

Mr. Trump means what he says when he speaks, and world leaders know, fear, and respect this. The United States is no longer going to be outsmarted and threatened by the likes of Russia, China, Mexico, Iran. and the little dictator of North Korea.

Unlike his predecessor, who filled his time in office with vacations, Wednesday night gala parties in the White House, and golf, Mr. Trump has no time for this. His schedule is too busy trying to straighten out all the terrible decisions and agreements made by the Obama administration during the past eight years.

DON RICE

Temperance

 

Love, don’t blame, to end violence

Tom Dawson seemed to blame welfare, drugs, unmarried births, working mothers, and violent media for gun violence (April 29, “Society needs to change for violence to drop”).

I agree that the number of guns isn’t the reason. I also agree that social factors are to blame.

However, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, the homicide rate in 1926 was 8.8 (per 100,000) and in 2014 was only 5.1.

Injustice begets more injustice, violence begets more violence, war begets more war. Peace and love beget more peace and love. Let’s try to show it.

MARIANNE BLACK

Perrysburg 

First Published May 8, 2017, 4:00 a.m.