'Yet another unthinkable firearms atrocity,' writes one reader. 'So it’s back to America’s post-massacre drill: Mourn the innocent dead. Shower their survivors with thoughts and prayers.' (via latimesopinion)
I want something very simple. I want President Biden to state that he will not sign another bill passed by Congress, no matter how valid, until a bill reaches his desk outlawing assault weapons. I want one more thing. I want the lawmakers who represent states where mass killings of children have happened — and there are many — to meet with the parents of those slain children and publicly explain to them face to face why they could not support such a bill.
The photo by Nicole Hester of The Tennessean of a child weeping on a school bus should be enlarged into a poster and prominently and continuously displayed in the halls of Congress until significant actions on gun control are taken.To the editor:Mourn the innocent dead. Shower their survivors with thoughts and prayers. Highlight the shooter’s maniacal bent. Malign those who might have diverted him or her from such a murderous path.
After the dead are buried, life goes on. Firearm sales skyrocket. Animated 2nd Amendment debates recycle. Politicians stalemate on meaningful gun-control measures. Nothing much changes. The problem is the attitude that the way to solve your problems is to kill yourself and take a lot of people with you. The NRA has an attitude problem too — all it has is a hammer, so every problem looks like a nail.
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