Letters: What is wrong with our legislators?

Do we really want police or firefighters who aren’t deeply bothered by killing someone or by seeing their partners killed or just seeing the victims of too many horrendous murders?

Why shouldn’t these incidents be covered by workers compensation?

It is appalling that legislators such as Sen. Greg Gregory think our first responders should have to incur the cost of counseling themselves.

If this wasn’t bad enough, Rep. David Weeks and his colleagues objected that the penalties were too high in a bill to increase penalties for anyone who harms police dogs in the line of duty.

We should fit them with bullet-proof vests and let them go out on a “wanted dead or alive” manhunt and go ahead of the two-legged officers whose lives have been saved daily by their four-legged partners.

We have to pay legislators’ salaries … even when they haven’t earned anything but our disdain, along with their fat retirement fund and their health-insurance policies. Yet they have the nerve to deny help to those who protect them.