A letter to the city council mailed is best understood by first being accepted and printed in our local paper. Council may refuse to take the writer seriously.

I support the “Sons of Confederacy” (not a wish) but a demand that firearm discharge be allowed at parades or any function where their group assembles.

Has city council polled the citizens on this issue? Absolute laws without public discourse is troubling.

It is proper to ban firearms discharge within the city’s boundaries.

Council has ignored the people’s desire to honor our heritage in battle by our descendants.

Parades are for everyone, if gunfire discharge is unpleasant for war veterans and children – perhaps they should not be in attendance. We sometime take too seriously and I might add wrong headed one’s rights. Anyone can be offended by any number of enterprises.

I speak in support of the “Sons of the Confederacy” demanding (strongly) that firearms discharge be resumed at parades or any function honoring our heritage. Moultrie is a combine of its citizens — government serves at the pleasure of its citizens. Reminder as you choose to disregard my two grandfathers, James Palmer and James O’Connor of Montgomery County (Mount Vernon) Ga. who honorably served the Confederacy you cross the line of common decency and common civility.

Tom Rogers

Moultrie