carriage ban<\/a> is so wrongheaded. I beg the mayor and City Council to reconsider. Have any of the decision-makers consulted with people who know horses? This scheme seems to have been cooked up by well-intentioned do-gooders who know nothing about horses. Their situation in America is precarious and getting worse. This plan will only make things worse. The wild mustangs in the West on protected land are being shot from helicopters by sick people. They are being rounded up and sent for slaughter by the government that wants the land for its rich buddies and industry. Twenty-thousand horses go to slaughter every year in America. A horse without a job is a dead horse. You are going to give 180 well-loved horses a pink slip.<\/p>\nSusan Zetscha<\/p>\n
Animal anachronism<\/p>\n
Brooklyn: I\u2019m writing to express my support for the City Council and Mayor Mamdani\u2019s action to ban horse-drawn carriages. That era, however nostalgic, is over, and there\u2019s no need to continue to exploit these animals in that way. I also understand that this ban will affect a lot of people\u2019s livelihoods and I\u2019m sympathetic to that, too. May I suggest a new way to do the same thing? I\u2019m sure there\u2019s an inventive, imaginative, creative person out there who can design a solar-powered, similar-looking carriage as a substitute. It\u2019s time to step into a new future, and the benefits to all would be tremendous.<\/p>\n
Wanda Peakes<\/p>\n
Myriad benefits<\/p>\n
White Plains, N.Y.: Voicer John Procida rhetorically asks why we don\u2019t ban cars since, as he notes, far more deaths are due to cars than horse-drawn carriages. I say un-rhetorically that society should indeed ban all cars everywhere, all the time. The advantages are too many to enumerate, but here are some: fewer deadly DUI\/DWI incidents, traffic fatalities, hit-and-runs, road rage injuries (if not deaths), less pollution, less use of cars for getaways in illegal activities, no seniors or disabled drivers losing control of vehicles and becoming extra seating in a suddenly open-air restaurant dining room, no need for parking lots, spaces, rules or fines, and home garages formerly used to house cars become true storage rooms, not to mention greater in-person human interaction through increased usage of public transportation. Most importantly, no more need for gas nor the treasonous chicanery plotted by the president and an enemy.<\/p>\n
Chris Lee<\/p>\n
Daily danger<\/p>\n
Belvidere, N.J.: Human fatalities from collisions with e-bikes from 2022 to 2026: 126. Human fatalities from collisions with horse-drawn carriages in the same timeframe: One. Serious human injuries from collisions with e-bikes from 2022 to 2026: 11,814. Serious human injuries from horse-drawn carriages in the same timeframe: five. Recently, we visited the Catholic Church of St. Vincent Ferrer on the Upper East Side. I needed eyes in the back of my head. Never mind the taxis, don\u2019t dare put your foot on the street without looking for e-bikes. They are silent and will clip you from behind or sideways.<\/p>\n
Dan Arthur Pryor<\/p>\n
Masked men<\/p>\n
Spotswood, N.J.: It seems that the vast majority of crimes are committed by people wearing masks and hoodies. It\u2019s time to outlaw masks. If it\u2019s a warm day and a grown man has his hood up, common sense says beware.<\/p>\n
Tom Scott<\/p>\n
AI adversary<\/p>\n
Brooklyn: Students all over the country are protesting to stop further development of AI. I have just one question for these concerned students: How are you going to stop China from developing its AI?<\/p>\n
Kathy Barry<\/p>\n
Attack on dissent<\/p>\n
Manhattan: Bramhall says it like it is (\u201cIn America any naturalized citizen can serve in Congress until they oppose Trump,\u201d Oct. 19). But Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota isn\u2019t just being forced out of Congress. The Trump administration is working on deporting her. All naturalized citizens are vulnerable to President Trump\u2019s whims. Plus, you can be sure that naturalized Brown and Black people will be the first in line for deportation whether they\u2019re elected officials or not. I would sure like to see spines stiffening in Congress. Naked authoritarianism is hard to miss.<\/p>\n
Sarah Townley<\/p>\n
Time to turn<\/p>\n
Morristown, N.J.: Now is the moment for MAGA citizens to remember the old adage, \u201cFool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.\u201d In my opinion, the president and his incompetent, corrupt acolytes have debased the office and dragged the good name of America through the mud. Jan. 6 and the pardoning of the criminals who ransacked the Capitol will stand in history books as a day of infamy, a stain on our republic that will not wash away. You have diminished the heart and soul of America for the whole world to see. At long last, we must all acknowledge what has been plain to see: The lying emperor has no clothes. This is no time for timidity. Vote with courage, conscience and clarity. Vote like our democracy depends on it, because it does. Reject enablers and sycophants.<\/p>\n
Pete Begley<\/p>\n
Villainous visage<\/p>\n
Bronx: Has anyone noticed the resemblance between the darker Stephen Miller and the lighter Vladimir Putin? And both Trump puppeteers.<\/p>\n
Rose Mary Lancaster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wealth tax should only tax the wealthy Bronx: While I support the administration\u2019s pied-\u00e0-terre tax to generate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,264,63,299],"class_list":["post-379438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-nyc","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}