Laws should promote reason and not whip up hysteria.

Politicians, as usual, shut the barn door after the horse has escaped, not realizing that such action has no bearing on future problems. Also, it is almost impossible for a rare situation to repeat itself. Yet, after the sad, wild animal tragedy in Zanesville last year, in which the demented owner opened the cages of his wild animals and then committed suicide, politicians passed the ‘much needed’ wild anima bill. Of course, the bill has nothing to do with either preventing the tragedy of the killings or of animal abuse ( which was not occurring at the time) in the future. I do believe, “kill all the politicians” should be the other half of Shakespeare compound sentence beginning with “kill all the lawyers.” A public subjected to illogic and irresponsibility by public servants cannot grow in knowledge or understanding. Even WCH City Council proved this recently by proposing that businesses surrounding the Court House be forced to ‘clean up their act’ for the good of the community. A lifelong pet owner, Carolyn McLaughlin