To the editor: One other taking pictures — in church no much less (“3 lifeless, together with attacker, and 17 injured in Minneapolis Catholic faculty taking pictures,” Aug. 27). It’s so commonplace on this nation that we hardly blink an eye fixed. When are we as People going to get up? Nations which have strict gun insurance policies have a lot fewer shootings. I get so disgusted with individuals who say, “Weapons don’t kill individuals, individuals kill individuals.” Positive, but when individuals didn’t have weapons of their palms, they couldn’t shoot anybody.
Republicans have made gun rights considered one of their core points. There isn’t any place for weapons in our nation — none. Few individuals kill their dinner and produce it residence. Any politician who helps gun rights ought to be voted out of workplace. And we as People want to appreciate that not all “rights” ought to 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 shops should cease utilizing these tragedies for self-promotion. Tears and hole speeches gained’t save lives.
We want actual options from specialists in legislation enforcement, nations 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 alter legal guidelines, create safeguards and educate in regards to 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 show political roadblocks change 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 taking pictures at an American faculty. My father was a Struggle World II veteran who returned from Guadalcanal in a wheelchair. After the warfare, he saved weapons in our residence, together with a pistol and a rifle, however any ammunition our dad may 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 taking pictures vary. Nevertheless, he acknowledged that ammunition for weapons of warfare was to not be in a home the place youngsters may discover them.
I cringe each time I hear a couple of taking pictures in an American faculty. What number of youngsters should die? America can cease this carnage whereas additionally allowing residents to personal weapons.
Marilyn Weiss Alper, Los Angeles
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To the editor: I’m a mom, a grandmother and a great-grandmother, so after all the information of the taking pictures of schoolchildren in a Minneapolis church hit me viscerally. However what introduced instant tears to my eyes was the little boy who matter-of-factly informed a reporter that he took cowl as they’d “practiced.” Grade-school youngsters in America should be usually taught easy methods to react to gunfire. Studying, writing, arithmetic and survival of a taking pictures.
Mary Rouse, Los Angeles
