Sound Off for Dec. 28

Know fireworks rules

It’s that time again. Please be considerate of your neighbors this New Year’s weekend. These fireworks are illegal to be fired within the city limits along the Coast. Fireworks cause anxiety for the elderly, the young, veterans and others with PTSD and pets. So please take your fireworks to the county or to areas designated on the beach. A lot of folks even have to leave their homes to get away from these fireworks. I live in the Eagle Point area and will be calling the Biloxi Police Department to report my neighbors who participate in this illegal activity. Don’t complain about a ticket from the police for disturbing the peace.

Verbal child abuse at Coast store

So many people are wasting a lot of time and energy protesting vaccines. Take that time and use it toward doing something useful like working on how we can turn around the child abuse crisis in this country. So much child abuse is going on right at our back door. Go to the grocery store and just listen to how some of the adults talk to their children. I witnessed it myself in Walmart on Saturday and was caught off guard on how to approach the matter. This man, with a female who was holding a baby with other young children in tow, had not one good word to say to those kids. He was verbally abusive and would not let up. His language was foul. He worked on one child and then would start on another. They would start to cry one by one. He was a bully and it was all I could do to keep from telling him exactly what he was.

Counting votes

Vice President Kamala Harris is embarking on a mission for voting rights, not because she’s succeeded at any other project for the past year, but because it’s a favorite trope of the Democrat party to portray a false narrative that an individual’s right to vote is in jeopardy. One person, one vote isn’t in danger. Showing an ID would make it simple and secure. Count every vote with no skullduggery. Non-citizens cannot vote. She can go to another project. This one is solved.

Masks at church

Have all churches relaxed their rules on mask wearing for those in attendance for services? I attended mass recently and could not help notice the large number of people not wearing a mask in a very crowded church. Not only were many not wearing a mask, there was a lot of coughing and hacking. I can only hope the mask that I was wearing gave me some protection. Church leaders, don’t you think you need to reevaluate this?

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