To the editor: Admirably, an armed bystander went towards hazard to guard kids and lecturers from an lively shooter (“3 children and a teacher killed in Oregon elementary school shooting, police say,” Oct. 15). He intervened instantly and sure saved lives.
Sadly, within the seconds that elapsed, 4 individuals, together with three kids, had already been shot lifeless and two others had been critically injured.
The inconvenient fact is that by the point a “good man with a gun” responds, pictures have already been fired. However in America, that’s a chance too many are prepared to take for simple entry to firearms and to spice up gun business income.
Till we decide to a prevention-based strategy that focuses on cautious vetting of who has entry to firearms, safe storage necessities, limiting the kinds of weapons obtainable to civilians and altering the tradition round firearms, we’ll proceed to see innocents murdered within the moments earlier than a hero intervenes.
Don’t be fooled by the gun foyer’s lies. Extra weapons don’t make us safer.
Loren Lieb, Northridge
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To the editor: On Aug. 20, 2025, the Los Angeles Occasions revealed my short letter to the editor after a faculty taking pictures. Since that date, there have been extra shootings at colleges, spiritual establishments and different public buildings, just like the one final week in Bend, Ore.
A 12 months in the past, I requested, “What number of kids should die?” I repeat that query and in addition ask: What’s the matter with us? What are we instructing our kids? How can we cease the carnage? How are these younger individuals so simply accessing lethal weapons?
Marilyn Weiss Alper, Sherman Oaks
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To the editor: The daddy, Kaylub Giamanco, who bumped into the college and shot the shooter ought to be counseled. Nevertheless, let’s not overlook the opposite, arguably much more brave particular person within the assault: the unnamed and unarmed trainer who engaged the shooter in hand-to-hand fight earlier than Giamanco arrived. She can be a hero.
Gary Garcia, Los Angeles
