To the editor: Because the nation ready to mourn the thirteenth anniversary of the 2012 Sandy Hook taking pictures and the 26 lives that had been misplaced throughout that bloodbath, one other gunman opened fireplace at Brown College in Rhode Island Saturday (“Police search Brown College after shooter kills 2 and injures 9 on campus,” Dec. 13). This time, at the least two had been killed and 9 injured.
Personally, I’d wish to know if the shooter deliberate the assault to happen the day earlier than the anniversary of Sandy Hook, or was it only a horrible coincidence? Both approach, what occurred this previous weekend is one other American tragedy fueled by hate or sickness — or each.
As soon as once more, I urge the president to convene a Camp David gun summit with representatives from the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation, 2nd Modification proponents, legislation enforcement and households of victims in attendance. What number of extra occasions do we have to expertise this insanity earlier than true gun reform laws is enacted?
Denny Freidenrich, Laguna Seashore
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To the editor: After each mass taking pictures on this nation, voices are raised demanding legislative limits on firearm possession. However many times, politicians (lots of them beneficiaries of marketing campaign donations from the NRA) inform us that it is a time of mourning and never an applicable time for speak about gun management laws.
They and members of the Supreme Courtroom proceed to cover behind the 2nd Modification despite the truth that none drafting that modification may have imagined the event of repeat-firing weapons, obtainable immediately to disgruntled college students and anybody carrying a grudge.
There have now been at the least 75 college shootings within the U.S. this yr alone. So could we ask immediately, following the tragic mass taking pictures at Brown College, whether it is lastly time to lift questions over gun management?
Edward Grubbs, Spring Valley, Calif.
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To the editor: Fifteen killed on Bondi Seashore, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner killed with their very own son as a suspect, a mass taking pictures at Brown College, Russia continues to bomb Ukraine, the U.S. is bombing boats within the Caribbean and the record goes on. It appears to me that we live at an particularly violent time and that these horrific incidents are coming sooner and sooner.
I’m left with many questions. What are we educating our children concerning the worth of all human life? What behaviors are we modeling to folks of all ages? How will we deal with each other, whether or not or not we all know and even like them? What are we doing to make sure folks with psychological well being or drug dependancy points shouldn’t have entry to weapons? Once more, the record goes on.
We’d like a brand new narrative on this nation — and on the earth. One which requires us to do higher. I feel it must come up from the underside up relatively than be mandated from the highest down. We should every dwell, converse and vote for a extra peaceable, simply, type and linked world.
Joanna Ryder, Hermosa Seashore
