Sound Off: February 5, 2026

Sun Herald readers weigh in on local and national topics.

Guns

Reading all these cynical posts about conservatives now being against the Second Amendment has been quite funny. The leftist way of twisting and lying about what conservatives have actually said. Please show me where a conservative has said the nurse did not have the right to own a gun.

Clarity, please

How can a disarmed person in custody on the ground be deemed “an active aggressor” needed shooting 10 times? C’mon now.

He said what?

Just a reminder for anyone confused that the director of the FBI is ... coming for your guns? “You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple.” The words of Kash Patel.

Kennedy Center

President Trump closing the Kennedy Center is just like the little kid who takes the ball home so the rest can’t play.

Two years to fix?

If the Kennedy Center is so “dilapidated,” why was his wife’s fashion show of a mockumentary shown there first? President Trump is trying to mitigate the damage he caused by seizing control that has alienated almost every act scheduled to perform there, so it will close for renovations. Since he said he won’t tear down the building, my money is on an East Wing type of demolition, and a rebuild full of tacky gold monuments to himself, and axing the Kennedy name altogether.

Outrageous

The FBI just seized at least 1 million ballots from the Georgia 2020 presidential election, and perhaps as many as 2.5 million. Those ballots belong to Georgia and should have stayed in Georgia under the observation and control of Georgia officials. If the FBI is concerned about those ballots, then yes the FBI should have a right to examine them--but in Georgia under the control and observation of Georgia officials.

Epstein files

If anyone is trying to suggest that any politician, be they Democrat or Republican, should evade punishment for any Epstein-related crimes, they need to re-examine their priorities.

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