Sound Off: September 7, 2025

Sun Herald readers weigh in on local and national topics.

Roof program

Why doesn’t Mississippi have a FORTIFIED roof program like our neighboring states? Our insurance commissioner doesn’t do enough for his constituents. He wants to abolish his elected office and be appointed. Also, our elected coastal representatives don’t put forth enough effort when it comes to insurance.

The actual problem

A transgender adult recently committed a horrendous shooting of children in church. As a consequence some people have claimed that transpeople are especially dangerous. Statistics do not support that claim. Most mass shootings are committed by straight white males between ages 18 to 45. If we are going to reduce mass shootings we need to focus on how to forestall them.

Joy Reid

Crazy ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid doesn’t think President Trump was shot and she’s vocal about it. It’s really not possible to engage in rational conversation or policy discussions with people that are that irrational and illogical.

Economy

Look, the tariffs may be crushing U.S. manufacturing, but at least we all get to pay more for everything.

It’s literally your job

“Who am I to tell you what to put in your body?“ says the surgeon general of Florida. You are a doctor, the surgeon general of Florida, that’s who. Lay people look to our physicians with special training for such guidance. Like our bodies, being chosen to be a healer is another gift from God. You are squandering that gift, Dr. Surgeon General of Florida.

Our drinking water

It seems a lot of people have nothing better than to belittle President Trump and/or the Republican Party. Since they have so much energy, why not put it to good use and complain about the Carcinogens in our drinking water. Mississippi is one of 19 states that have dangerous amounts of this cancer producing toxins in our environment but you never hear about it. Let’s start complaining about something important and maybe it can be fixed in five, ten or so years.

So unhealthy

It seems President Trump and Joe Biden are in a battle to see who can appear less healthy.

Get ready

I, for one, am looking forward to when insurance companies begin refusing to work with individuals who choose not to vaccinate. Good luck with that, deniers.

Epstein files

Every day that goes by without the full release of the Epstein files makes everyone involved look that much more guilty.

Get them all

ProPublica looked into President Trump’s cabinet and found three members who claimed multiple properties as a primary residence, the same accusation made against Fed governor Lisa Cook.

Explosive video

In a hidden video, Trump’s DOJ deputy chief brags the FBI is redacting Republican names and only leaving Democrats in the Epstein files; he also admits Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to “keep her mouth shut.”

Democrats

Yes, Democrats, keep on supporting the transgender cause. That’s a real winner with most of America.

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