Guns, Endicott and Israel: Weekly look at guest columns, op-eds in the Press & Sun

Here are this week's local guest viewpoints, op-eds and letters submitted by readers to the Press & Sun-Bulletin / pressconnects.com.

Endicott Proud continues to help with improvements in village

Former mayor Linda Jackson touts the work of Endicott Proud, which she says continues to advocate for the village and assist in longterm planning, especially on Washington Avenue. She writes, "Within Endicott Proud, we accomplished a lot with code upgrades, community involvement, and even helped people study and earn their high school equivalency diploma."

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Keeping guns out of hands of domestic abusers should be common sense

Joshua Riley, an Ithaca resident and Broome County native who is running for Congress in New York’s 19th District, gives a rundown of the upcoming Supreme Court case that will decide if people convicted in domestic abuse cases can own a gun. He writes, "Protecting our most vulnerable citizens should not be partisan or controversial. That’s why I was honored to submit a bipartisan brief to the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that these common-sense protections for survivors of domestic violence must not be taken away."

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Gaza residents paying tragic price in Israeli-Hamas conflict

Jack Gilroy, an Endwell resident, argues that Americans have a misbalanced opinion of the Israeli-Hamas conflict, and we must focus on the atrocities taking place in Gaza. He writes, "The people of Gaza are mostly Palestinians driven by gunpoint from their homes by Israeli soldiers into the most densely populated tiny strip that now is said by the Wall Street Journal to be pulverized as were the German cities of Dresden and Berlin in 1945."

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