Recall the 2016 election in the voting booth

Opinion from The Daily Journal published in Vineland New Jersey

Our US 2016 election for president needs to be overturned.

VINELAND, NJ- It has become perfectly clear that the Russians have pushed for making Donald Trump president of the United States by trashing Hillary Clinton. 

Also, as many as 26 known states have had their voting booths tampered with. We will never know how many votes were changed over and probably never will. In other words, the election should be null and void.

Since it cannot be said the last presidential election was conducted by the rules, we must say we need another election. Only by another election will we really know which person the American people really want.

Trump is not doing his job. The Senate and Congress have asked him to enforce more sanctions against Russia. He was asked to do this by an overwhelming majority in both houses. 

Why won’t Trump retaliate against Russia? This is an act of war.

Impeachment, no; another election, yes. The Republicans will never impeach Trump, even though he is not a stable person. They thought they could control him; they can’t. Also, the Republicans didn’t know he was in bed with Russia. The Republicans have gotten everything they want so far – a Supreme Court justice, tax breaks by the millions for the rich and deregulation for big business. Besides, Mike Pence isn’t much better than Trump, except he’s not paranoid.

The second big news is the AR-15. The AR-15 a military weapon came on the scene after the 10-year ban in 2004. The Democrats tried to renew the ban but the Republicans, with majorities in both houses, prevented it. This weapon is designed to kill people. There is no good reason for civilians to own one. 

Now, what happened in Florida is a 19-year-old purchased one and killed 17 people. In Florida, you cannot buy beer until 21 years old but you can buy an AR-15 at 18 with no background check, no waiting period. However, there is a waiting period of three days to buy a pistol.

Now the Republicans are blaming the FBI. The FBI gets about 300,000 calls per year, and with 37,000 agents just maybe one might slip through. This is not the point. America is the only industrial country that has this problem. We have the highest percentage of guns in the world.

The children of Florida are asking to ban these type weapons. So far, the Republicans have not even stopped the sales of the thing call a bump, which turns a semiautomatic weapon into a machine gun like the one used to kill 58 people in Las Vegas.

Charles Ciraolo  Vineland, New Jersey