To the editor: There was one other mass taking pictures at a college; this time the suspect is a 14-year-old in Georgia who was interviewed a 12 months in the past about his threatening to do that.
And nonetheless, nothing might be completed in Georgia or most different states, besides to say hug your kids, inform them you’re keen on them and the victims have our ideas and prayers. What BS.
We want higher gun legal guidelines. Even Republicans who caress the Nationwide Rifle Assn. and exalt the 2nd Modification must at the least attempt to get a few of these weapons off the streets and enact smart legal guidelines so these shootings are much less frequent.
Attention-grabbing how the Republicans care for youngsters a lot that they need to outlaw abortion, but when a toddler is born, they should undergo energetic shooter drills at school to remain protected. I’m outraged, scared for my grandchildren and unhappy for our nation.
Barbara Azrialy, Los Angeles
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To the editor: I don’t perceive why officers are so shocked by college shootings. As a former highschool trainer of 30 years, I recollect it was not laborious to see pink flags raised by college students who have been alienated, sad or bullied.
In the neighborhood I taught, I figured that at the least 35% of the dad and mom have been alcoholics. I endorsed children who have been sexually abused by kinfolk and so many who have been ignored or mistreated in some ways. These children come to high school with a “college face,” and until they’re seen by a trainer or another person, their points go unaddressed.
After all, we want much better gun management. However we can’t ignore that we want a lot extra private interplay with children individually. Colleges might set up small (required) courses by which children discuss what’s going on of their lives, led by academics educated particularly for this job.
There’s plenty of work to be completed. On this meantime, in case you are a mum or dad or a relative, please take heed to your youngsters and take note of how they’re coping, how they’re feeling, and what’s on their minds.
Phyllis Molloff, Camarillo
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To the editor: Politicians against gun management argue that the answer is best psychological well being applications. If they really imagine this, they need to assist a complete effort to offer psychological well being applications.
Provided that gun violence is the main explanation for demise for youngsters and youths within the U.S., politicians ought to be focusing their efforts on funding coaching for counselors in each college in America. There ought to be a large push for inexpensive psychological well being applications with experience in figuring out and treating people in danger for committing gun violence.
If politicians really really feel that the reply is more practical psychological well being applications, they should reveal their sincerity by way of motion and make psychological well being applications a precedence. Ideas and prayers will not be efficient alternate options.
Ronald Kotkin, Laguna Seaside
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To the editor: Earlier than even understanding a lot concerning the 14-year-old boy suspected of killing 4 individuals Wednesday at a Georgia highschool, officers introduced they may prosecute him as an grownup.
That’ll remedy all the pieces, all proper. Little question the following mentally in poor health scholar with a gun — a toddler who, in that second, doesn’t give one whit about himself or anybody else — will pause and assume, “Hmm, I’d higher not pull the set off as a result of I would get tried as an grownup.”
Susan Goulding, Seal Seaside
