The Vent / Metro

Atlanta commuters need to stop playing dodge-car to get ahead of everyone else. You are the ones causing all the accidents that make the rest of us late. Maybe you should try leaving 15 minutes earlier.

Score: 479

Gun-free zones are havens for killers. No court has ever held police responsible for failing to protect citizens. My protection is my God-given right and my responsibility. Being old and slow, I choose to carry a gun.

Score: 394

If City Hall can have a Christmas tree, there is no reason a library cannot have a Christmas tree also; both are on public property.

Score: 388

Thank you Conyers and Rockdale Law Enforcement officers! Seeing you at Wal-mart Saturday morning caring for our children through "Shop with a Cop" brought tears to my eyes after the heartbreak of Friday. You helped this broken heart start to heal.

Score: 364

50% increase in Pay for part time work at city hall. Best jobs are downtown Atlanta, if you can get elected.

Score: 328

The President and other government officials take an oath to uphold the law. Yet we now see that their is selective enforcement of laws. So why bother with the oath?

Score: 241

Mental health costs money and we as a society would rather lament the deaths of small children rather than pay for preventative medicine.

Score: 229

I am disabled on social security. I sympathize with those who worry about mortgages, taxes and bills. I have to worry about having enough money at the end of the month so I can eat. Be glad you're not me.

Score: 218

Somehow today, the fiscal cliff seems the least of our problems.

Score: 211

Atheists do have churches, they're called 'colleges'.

Score: 207

How come it's always the good person who has to take all the crap that the loud-mouth, childish bully dishes out at work? -- usually because it's the boss!

Score: 204

We deregulated banks and got the financial crisis, deregulated radio and got corporations controlling the airwaves with mindless junk, deregulated assault weapons and got endless tragedies, deregulated natural gas in Georgia and our bills doubled. Tell me again about how all regulations are bad.

Score: 176

If you are going to post a Vent, please at least make sure that everything is spelled correctly. Putting in a little thought and common sense would be nice too.

Score: 143

Please tell Dunwoody leadership that we don't need more bike lanes to nowhere.

Score: 100

So I can't buy pot to ease my nausea from chemo, can't gamble, but I can buy a semi-automatic weapon that's only purpose is to kill and maim. That's backwards no matter what you tell me.

Score: 70

I once was a member of the NRA, before I researched their budget and found they're just just money-driven lobbyists for gun makers.

Score: -14

People who intentionally mess with you when they know you are not a morning person!

Score: -64

The computer is maddening: One types in one thing and gets everything except what he types in.

Score: -73

Husband: I don't know women's sizes. Wife: When in doubt, buy elastic!

Score: -74

I say let the cuts happen and layoff all the government and private contract workers. Everyone then can experience first hand going without all the vital, important, and good things the government provides. Maybe then all those folks who claim the government is the problem will come to their senses.

Score: -122

Do we have to worry about every shy and reclusive kid being a murderer? They always have no trouble finding murder guns!

Score: -129

The President got blamed for rising gasoline prices. Does he now get credit for the prices becoming lower each day?

Score: -151

Face it, as the largest global weapons seller, starter of unnecessary wars, unmanned drones, and routine massacres at home, we are the biggest source of violence in the world.

Score: -155

Given that a crying man is a sign in some cultures indicating weakness, I'm not sure that it's wise to have our leaders weeping on international television all the time.

Score: -201

You people venting against immigration, and SSI changes. Do you not understand that these immigrants are of the age that can replenish those coffers and keep our old age benefits funded?

Score: -208

Social Security and Medicare are entitlements when a married couple both get them but only one paid into the system.

Score: -216

Who needs five semi-automatic guns in a township that has only had one murder in the last decade. We need gun regulations NOW!

Score: -321

Can we please take a break from all the stadium hating for at least one day? I am all for replacing the Dome with something Atlanta and our Falcons can be proud of.

Score: -341

Medicare fraud is coupled with abuse by doctors and patients who demand needless and useless treatments--primarily by older white women.

Score: -344

I understand it is too late to outlaw guns, there's 280 million already out there strapped as ticking time bombs to our backs. But we can outlaw the bullets.

Score: -357