Dec. 16, 2025 7:30 AM PT
To the editor: Because the nation ready to mourn the thirteenth anniversary of the 2012 Sandy Hook capturing 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 University after shooter kills 2 and injures 9 on campus,” Dec. 13). This time, a minimum of 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 manner, 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, regulation 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 Seaside
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To the editor: After each mass capturing on this nation, voices are raised demanding legislative limits on firearm possession. However repeatedly, politicians (lots of them beneficiaries of marketing campaign donations from the NRA) inform us that this can be a time of mourning and never an acceptable time for discuss gun management laws.
They and members of the Supreme Courtroom proceed to cover behind the 2nd Modification regardless of the truth that none drafting that modification might have imagined the event of repeat-firing weapons, obtainable at present to disgruntled college students and anybody carrying a grudge.
There have now been a minimum of 75 school shootings within the U.S. this 12 months alone. So might we ask at present, following the tragic mass capturing 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 Beach, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner killed with their own son as a suspect, a mass capturing 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 quicker and quicker.
I’m left with many questions. What are we instructing our youngsters concerning the worth of all human life? What behaviors are we modeling to individuals 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 individuals with psychological well being or drug dependancy points would not 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 believe it must come up from the underside up moderately than be mandated from the highest down. We should every dwell, converse and vote for a extra peaceable, simply, form and linked world.
Joanna Ryder, Hermosa Seaside
