__Not all mentally ill people are threats__
I’m calling about the Speakout that mentally ill people kill people, not guns. First of all, not all mentally ill people kill people. And it is not illegal to buy a gun unless you have been involuntarily committed to a mental facility. The majority of people who are murdered are murdered by someone they know, such as domestic assault. Yes, people do kill people, not the guns. I do agree with you. But don’t put mental ill people in one category. You wouldn’t do that to a diabetic or a cancer or heart patient. Mental illness is an illness, just like a physical illness. It just effects the brain, which is a part of the body which the heart is.
__Suggestions for Legion Park__
This has to do with “Don’t Improve Legion Park.” I agree that I don’t want to drive down the road and see the bathroom there. But I do have a suggestion since hardly no one uses the free parking area by the Depot, why not build the bathrooms by the Depot and make it look like it has been there all this time. You can tap into the water system at the Depot. I’m sure they have a bathroom there. But you can have a bigger bathroom there and design it to look like part of the Depot. It’s just a suggestion. And this person is right. I don’t want to drive by and see two big blue portable potties out there. It is such a nice park. It has lots of trees and lots of shade. Why not take part of that free parking area and plant some trees and make that part of the park too? That’s just a suggestion.
Actually your suggestions are part of the proposal being decided on by City Council. The bathrooms would be a permanent building, not a portable bathrooms and the proposal has more green space with grass and trees and less parking lot.
__Limit the door-to-door salesmen__
I’m calling about a salesman that came to my front door at 6:45 p.m. tonight. I was wondering if the City of Sikeston had some kind of policy that salesman would have to have a license or not bother people in their homes selling things. Thank you so much. I just don’t feel comfortable with salesman knocking on my door because I’m by myself and I’m elderly.