Unreasonable fears take away freedom

In the Opinion section on Nov. 8, there was a letter from Linda Douglas about not using schools as polling places. If she is so afraid, she should home school her children and then she would not have to worry except when the children go out to play.

For 42 years, I had gone to the same polling place. For the past years there has always been at least two police officers at the door. I have not heard of any school anywhere having a tragedy when voting was going on. A person who wants to do harm is not going to go there when the place is full of adults.

Show me one instance where children were harmed while adults were voting and I would go along with her idea, but there is not one. Ideas like this put fear in others and try and take away from our way of life.

My school district has such fear and I now I can no longer ride my bicycle to vote. I have to travel four and a half miles to vote to the other side of the railroad tracks, while others next to me in Buffalo Grove get to stay on my side of the tracks and vote at a different school a few blocks away from me.

Because of a few people fearing the worst, you lose part of your freedom.

John Billis Sr.

Prairie View