To the editor: One other capturing — in church no much less (“3 useless, together with attacker, and 17 injured in Minneapolis Catholic college capturing,” Aug. 27). It’s so commonplace on this nation that we hardly blink an eye fixed. When are we as Individuals going to get up? International locations which have strict gun insurance policies have a lot fewer shootings. I get so disgusted with individuals who say, “Weapons don’t kill folks, folks kill folks.” Positive, but when folks didn’t have weapons of their palms, they couldn’t shoot anybody.
Republicans have made gun rights one in all their core points. There isn’t any place for weapons in our nation — none. Few folks kill their dinner and convey it residence. Any politician who helps gun rights must be voted out of workplace. And we as Individuals want to understand that not all “rights” must be entitlements. As a mom, when my little one abused their “rights,” they had been taken away.
Paula Petrotta, Rancho Palos Verdes
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To the editor: Youngsters misplaced to gun violence deserve greater than prayers and clichés. Politicians and information retailers should cease utilizing these tragedies for self-promotion. Tears and hole speeches received’t save lives.
We want actual options from specialists in regulation enforcement, international locations which have curbed gun violence and psychological well being professionals. Politicians craft cautious statements to keep away from angering the Nationwide Rifle Assn., sustaining inaction.
Those that recycle hole phrases that allow gun violence should be dismissed. As an alternative of accepting these deaths, we’d like real efforts to vary legal guidelines, create safeguards and educate concerning the causes.
Information organizations should examine and spotlight actual choices for prevention. Sensationalizing incidents with out addressing options normalizes youth deaths. Media that fail to reveal political roadblocks develop into complicit on this disaster.
Ronald Kotkin, Lengthy Seaside
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To the editor: I watched the information tonight and was horrified, because it began with one other capturing at an American college. My father was a Conflict World II veteran who returned from Guadalcanal in a wheelchair. After the warfare, he stored weapons in our residence, together with a pistol and a rifle, however any ammunition our dad might need had was hidden. My brother and I weren’t permitted to level any weapon — even a water gun — at anybody. My dad was an professional marksman who went to a capturing vary. Nevertheless, he acknowledged that ammunition for weapons of warfare was to not be in a home the place youngsters might discover them.
I cringe each time I hear a few capturing in an American college. What number of youngsters should die? America can cease this carnage whereas additionally allowing residents to personal weapons.
Marilyn Weiss Alper, Sherman Oaks
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To the editor: I’m a mom, a grandmother and a great-grandmother, so after all the information of the capturing of schoolchildren in a Minneapolis church hit me viscerally. However what introduced rapid tears to my eyes was the little boy who matter-of-factly instructed a reporter that he took cowl as that they had “practiced.” Grade-school youngsters in America should be commonly taught tips on how to react to gunfire. Studying, writing, arithmetic and survival of a capturing.
Mary Rouse, Los Angeles
