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Rex merits death
The unhappy half about Gilgo Beach killer Rex Heuermann getting sentenced to life in jail with no parole is that there’s no death penalty and taxpayers should pay for his keep in jail (“Kin bare rage & anguish at fiend,” June 18).
Thomas Sarc
Central Islip
A mother’s exhausting obligation
It should have been terribly uncomfortable for the mom of Tycen Proper to call the police on her son for his plot to assault the UFC Freedom 250 occasion (“UFC ‘terror plot’ teen KO’d online,” June 18).
Thank goodness she did.
She needs to be praised for placing our great nation forward of household and serving to to stop a lethal assault on the White House.
I hope at some point her son will thank her for her braveness and sense of obligation.
JoAnn Frank
Clearwater, Fla.
Reparations paid
The Post is right to level out that some 50,000 New Yorkers died within the Civil War combating for the Union and the top of slavery (“A New Turn in NY’s Reparations Farce,” Editorial, June 18).
In addition, a number of instances that quantity had been wounded, with 1000’s spending their remaining years as amputees or in any other case disabled at a time when there was no Veterans Administration to help them, leaving them depending on mates, household and charities.
New York state contributed more troopers and suffered more casualties than every other state on both aspect within the Civil War.
The Empire State has paid for any slavery “reparations” in blood, treasure and ache.
Dennis Middlebrooks
Brooklyn
Kids, off the apps
The United Kingdom is following Australia’s instance and limiting entry to social media apps for kids beneath 16 (“Apps not kid stuff,” June 16)
It will discover, nevertheless, that youngsters will typically be capable to circumvent their restrictions.
It’s a common defective method of attempting to deal with the signs fairly than the sickness.
A greater concept may be to get them a soccer ball, watch a few video games with them and go to the native park and be a part of others.
The World Cup is on for a few weeks and would possibly give us that chance to get them out of the basement, bodily or metaphorical.
Dennis Fitzgerald
Melbourne, Australia
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End the cruelty
The debate over banning horse-drawn carriages in New York City has stretched on for years, with payments endlessly stalled and buried.
Meanwhile, highly effective unions keep their grip on City Hall, and significant motion retains getting delayed (“Horse horror,” June 18)
If that is actually as pressing because the City Council claims it to be, step one have to be an emergency injunction halting carriage operations whereas investigations and public hearings proceed.
In the final month alone, one other horse collapsed and died, and a younger man was thrown from a carriage and killed.
Philadelphia simply voted to ban horse-drawn carriages.
New York ought to do the identical.
Janet White
Philadelphia, Pa.
ID the funders
These paid anti-ICE agitators at Delaney Hall and the people paying them needs to be regarded into very fastidiously (“Organized anarchy,” June 14).
They’re attempting to destabilize our nation and those that are funding this needs to be introduced into the sunshine.
We need to know why they’re doing this.
What have they got to perform or benefit from this?
Steve Preziosa Sr.
Deptford, NJ
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