"If there's no money for the panhandlers,
the panhandlers will go away," said Councilman John Clamp.
But some residents say what will go away is
their right to give. “I think it is absolutely ludicrous to ticket someone for
wanting to help out another human being,” one person commented online. “To me,
that is the same as punishing someone for wanting to do the right thing.”
Another wrote, “Whenever I am tempted to pass judgment on these people I ask
myself how desperate would I have to be and how far would I have to fall before
I would beg? Then I hand them a dollar and get on with my day.”
“You are all missing the point,” wrote another
resident who said giving cash to “bums” was ill advised. “I used to give them
money,” the writer continued, “until I started seeing them in the park drinking
and smoking crack!” San Antonio Express-News columnist Victor Landa, however,
questioned the practicality of the proposed law by asking, “Whose
responsibility is it to be the street-level charity police?”
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