To the editor: After the Supreme Court docket’s twisted interpretation of the 2nd Modification in District of Columbia vs. Heller in 2008, folks grew to become extra entitled to personal weapons of various sorts and portions. Gun lovers have been gleeful, and lots of grew to become what are referred to as “single-issue voters.” They go to the polls primarily or completely to vote to take care of their 2nd Modification rights. (“Police: Tulsa gunman focused surgeon he blamed for ache,” June 1)
After Buffalo, Uvalde and now Tulsa — and the handfuls of different mass murders that preceded them — I’ll now be a single-issue voter too. I can’t vote for any candidate for any workplace who doesn’t explicitly assist gun management, together with however not restricted to banning AR-15-style rifles and different weapons of conflict.
There is no such thing as a purpose for these murderous firearms to be obtainable to personal residents. All of the obfuscation about psychological well being issues and hardening of faculties is not going to make us safer. The gun drawback is precisely that — a gun drawback.
Barbara H. Bergen, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Following the Robb Elementary College capturing in Uvalde, Texas, the GOP and gun rights advocates have been saying we have to arm lecturers and “harden” colleges.
The mass capturing at a Tulsa, Okla., medical heart solely every week later exposes this resolution for what it’s — ignorant and oblivious to the broader drawback.
Arming lecturers is ridiculous, for too many causes to debate right here, however primarily as a result of it doesn’t reply the issue of shootings in supermarkets, film theaters, nightclubs, metropolis parks, church buildings, synagogues, mosques, out of doors concert events, festivals, legislation companies, hospitals and so forth.
There’s no doable technique to “harden” each doable location of a mass capturing.
Daniel O’Connell, Mammoth Lakes, Calif.
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To the editor: It’s not the varsity or the clinic. It’s not the church or mosque or temple. It’s not the market or postal sorting heart. To be distracted by the placement of a mass capturing ignores the true drawback — weapons.
Mass shootings within the U.S. account for a really small variety of complete deaths and accidents attributable to weapons. In accordance with the Gun Violence Archive, on this nation there have already been greater than 18,000 deaths and 15,000 accidents on account of weapons in 2022.
These counts fail to measure the impression on the hundreds of households, mates and associates. The one technique to tackle these appalling statistics is by focusing on weapons. Failure to take action will make sure that we as a nation proceed to undergo.
David Dassey, Pasadena
