Mourners place flowers by every of the picket crosses devoted to the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary College taking pictures on Could 26, 2022.
Kin Man Hui/San Antonio Specific-Information through ZUMA Press Wire
The Problem: A taking pictures at a Texas elementary college that killed 19 younger youngsters and two adults.
One more taking pictures at an elementary college (“Sandy Hook once more,” Could 25).
Now we have all failed these poor youngsters and their devastated households, once more.
However we, as a society, have additionally failed the perpetrators of those shootings. We don't deal with psychological sickness correctly handled.
Perhaps if we might perceive extra in regards to the assailants, we might get them the assistance they want earlier than tragedy strikes, and put an finish to those horrific assaults. God bless these poor little youngsters and their households and classmates.
Steve Preziosa
Deptford, NJ
To Washington, DC, politicos: It’s quite simple — nobody however the police and the navy want assault rifles. Interval.
If you're too silly to understand that, then you must discover one other line of labor. Stop embarrassing us and yourselves. All people is aware of you might be within the pockets of the NRA.
And at last, folks, cease re-electing these mooks into workplace time and time once more, or you will notice the president sending out condolences too many extra occasions sooner or later.
Peter Sulzicki
Milford, Conn.
The month of Could 2022 has been completely appalling. America has witnessed a handful of bloodbath shootings. The taking pictures at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, is probably the most disturbing, because it entails little youngsters.
The nation has not gotten over the Could 14 grocery retailer taking pictures in Buffalo, the place 10 folks had been killed and three injured. The subsequent day was a taking pictures at Geneva Presbyterian church in Laguna, Calif., the place a number of folks had been killed and injured.
Studying and listening to information like this solely results in questions of how protected we're. The targets of those hideous occurrences are of various races and cultures, however that doesn’t cease the perpetrators from taking harmless lives.
Larry Gore, Jr.
Detroit, Mich.
When are the Republicans ever going to confess that a good man with a gun isn't going to defeat a foul man with an AR-15 who can slaughter a classroom filled with little youngsters in below a minute?
Sharon Austry
Forth Price, Texas
It's horrible and shameful that police who had been first on the homicide scene on the college in Uvalde, Texas, had been allegedly there for near an hour earlier than they entered the college.
As a retired NYPD cop, I do know that cops, even only one cop by himself, ought to have instantly gone into the college and tried to take out the shooter. Most cops are brave, but when one doesn’t have the braveness to go in and face an lively shooter, particularly in a college, she or he shouldn’t be a police officer — wherever. Risking your life is a part of the job.
There may be completely no excuse for ready to enter the college, even when the officer needed to give his or her life.
We might hear public-relations nonsense to excuse the police for his or her disgraceful delay to enter the college. It’s completely inexcusable in a case like this one.
Michael J. Gorman
Whitestone
Assault weapons are meant for one purpose solely: to neutralize a lethal menace — to kill folks.
They’re not used for searching, goal taking pictures or some other sports activities associated purpose. They shouldn't be permitted to be within the arms of any civilian. The identical restriction ought to be in place for physique armor.
How can politicians in Washington, who're sworn to move legal guidelines in one of the best curiosity of People, lean on the Second Modification each time assault weapons are mentioned in Congress?
They know of their hearts that these weren't the sort of weapons the Founding Fathers had in thoughts once they agreed to provide Americans the precise to bear arms.
Sadly, this week I lowered the flag on my flagpole — once more. Recently, it appears as if it’s been at half-staff virtually as a lot because it’s been totally raised.
Dick Mills
Bardonia
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