Sound Off: February 4, 2026

Sun Herald readers weigh in on local and national topics.

Now you’re OK with it?

“Roving bands of masked federal agents with total immunity executing gun owners” is the kind of sweaty conservative fantasy we’ve heard over the last 20 years on cable news. And now that it’s here, they love it

Kyle’s good, right?

Just a reminder that Kyle Rittenhouse showed up to a protest like the one in Minnesota and Republicans called him a hero.

Obama’s gonna take ‘em

If I had a dollar for every time I heard a conservative wail about how Obama was “gonna take our guns,” I’d be a rich man. How funny that it turns out King MAGA and his friends were the biggest threat to the Second Amendment.

Common sense

All President Trump is saying is that you should use extreme caution when you are in a volatile situation and carrying a firearm. That’s sensible.

Be careful

It’s not that hard to comply, people. If you don’t want ICE to shoot you, you should just not own or carry a firearm, not even a registered, licensed one. Also, you should not own a cell phone or drive a car.

ICE abuse

There is only so much abuse ICE agents should be expected to take. Arrest them all and let the courts sort them out.

It’s deep

We have reached the “It’s not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein” portion of the proceedings, in case you were wondering. That’s according to the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.

He’s right

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie said it best: If your representative, Democrat or Republican, is still silent about the Epstein files, or claiming it’s “much ado about nothing,” it’s time to elect a new one. Check their public statements.

I remember Pizzagate

Boy, the MAGA folk sure were against child abuse when it was just allegedly the Clintons as the ringleaders. Now that it looks like the whole swamp is involved, it’s suddenly not that big a deal.

Clintons’ subpoena

Sad that it took so much work, and apparently a threat of a vote, to get Bill and Hillary Clinton to positively respond to a lawfully delivered subpoena.

No such thing

In a few days I will be 75 years old. In all that time, I have never seen a want ad in the classifieds of the 1950s, 60s, 70s or 80s, or a feed on my Facebook or Instagram in more recent times, asking people to come out and be paid to protest. “They” think that if “they” say it enough times we will believe it. I’m not believing it.

NFL Hall of Fame

I read that one of the voters for the NFL Hall of Fame said that he could not remember if he voted for Bill Belichick or not. That implies he cannot remember everyone he did vote for. It sounds he did not give much thought to his votes and, therefore, should not be allowed to vote ever again.

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