You can’t turn on the news without being flooded with the Jan. 6, 2020, Capitol riot. Seems to me that Congress has better things to address, like maybe the highest inflation in almost 40 years.

Recently, I heard that some of the U.S. Capitol police officers feel they have post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, as a result of Jan. 6. I believe it is a fact that NONE of the “violent rioters” or “insurrectionists,” as they are painted, had a gun. How could these armed officers have been so intimidated?

Some of the officers may have suffered some bumps and bruises, but none of them were killed at the Capitol. (One officer later died from a stroke or heart attack.)

On the other hand, there was one tragic fatality. Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed, 14-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, was shot at point-blank range by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd.

And some of those officers want PTSD comp? I wonder what they would want if they were on Iwo Jima, in the first wave at Normandy or at Chosin Reservoir, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan or some other hot spot where someone was actually shooting back.

Ken Gerg, Emporium