Opting for liberty

Your June 7 editorial, “Value of fingerprintig,” seeks to make the erroneous point that teachers are opposed to background checking. You ask lawmakers who are taking a long, close look at the law, to step backward in order to make blurry the issue at stake. Several times in the editorial, the concept of background checking, which no teacher has opposed, is used in place of the word fingerprinting.

Also nauseating, was the attempt to “trump card” the issue with the familiar rallying cry of “safety of children”; as if teachers are for putting children in harm’s way. Yes, our lawmakers have had more than a year to see a bad law and have taken steps to repeal it. Give them credit for having the courage to opt for liberty in the face of such handwringing rhetoric.

Donald Mendell

Palmyra