To the editor: I’m one of many fortunate ones. My son wasn’t on the North Valley Jewish Neighborhood Middle in 1999 when a white supremacist went on a capturing rampage there. And he wasn’t at Parkland Excessive Faculty in Florida or at Columbine or at Sandy Hook. And he additionally managed to flee the bombing on the Boston Marathon in 2013, though he was only a block away. (“The teenager arrested in Georgia faculty capturing will not be an grownup, and shouldn’t be handled like one,” editorial, Sept. 7)
In reality, all through his complete instructional journey, he by no means participated in an energetic shooter drill. Having grown up within the Midwest, I took half in twister and hearth drills. Right here in Southern California, my son had his share of fireplace and earthquake drills.
As I watched the protection of the current faculty capturing in Georgia, I noticed that energetic shooter drills are as frequent at the moment as hearth drills. This has to cease.
In response to the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, gun violence is the largest explanation for loss of life of kids and teenagers within the U.S. What number of extra empty prayers will we hear? What number of extra shooters will we name “monsters”? What number of extra deaths or accidents will it take earlier than Congress takes aggressive motion to regulate weapons?
Terri Jonisch, Northridge
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To the editor: There are extra weapons in the USA than there are folks. The zillionith mass capturing, which happened in Georgia, is the most recent grim reminder of the implications of that.
We learn concerning the 2nd Modification to the Structure and feckless arguments from strict constructionists and different so-called constitutional students. That doc was written in 1787, as I recall from freshman U.S. historical past. Then, there have been no AR-15s or different assault weapons.
Due to this fact, I imagine folks on this nation can personal weapons, however provided that these weapons conform to the expertise that existed when the Structure was written. So, let folks exit in public with their muskets and blunderbusses, which might take a minute to load.
Put that in your 2nd Modification pipe and smoke it.
Luis Torres, Pasadena
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To the editor: I imagine that charging the dad or mum of the alleged Georgia faculty shooter can have zero impression as a deterrent.
However that isn’t the purpose. The purpose is stupidity. Every now and then, the stupidity of some folks is so profound — comparable to when one offers a weapon to his disturbed youngster — that, legal or not, the act should be punished and we derive some small measure of satisfaction.
Jack Spiegelman, Los Angeles
