To the editor: I’m one of many fortunate ones. My son wasn’t on the North Valley Jewish Neighborhood Middle in 1999 when a white supremacist went on a taking pictures rampage there. And he wasn’t at Parkland Excessive Faculty in Florida or at Columbine or at Sandy Hook. And he additionally managed to flee the bombing on the Boston Marathon in 2013, though he was only a block away. (“The teen arrested in Georgia school shooting is not an adult, and shouldn’t be treated like one,” editorial, Sept. 7)
In actual fact, all through his whole instructional journey, he by no means participated in an lively shooter drill. Having grown up within the Midwest, I took half in twister and hearth drills. Right here in Southern California, my son had his share of fireplace and earthquake drills.
As I watched the protection of the current faculty taking pictures in Georgia, I noticed that lively shooter drills are as frequent right this moment as hearth drills. This has to cease.
In response to the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, gun violence is the largest reason behind loss of life of youngsters and youths within the U.S. What number of extra empty prayers will we hear? What number of extra shooters will we name “monsters”? What number of extra deaths or accidents will it take earlier than Congress takes aggressive motion to regulate weapons?
Terri Jonisch, Northridge
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To the editor: There are extra weapons in the USA than there are individuals. The zillionith mass taking pictures, which passed off in Georgia, is the most recent grim reminder of the implications of that.
We learn concerning the 2nd Modification to the Structure and feckless arguments from strict constructionists and different so-called constitutional students. That doc was written in 1787, as I recall from freshman U.S. historical past. Then, there have been no AR-15s or different assault weapons.
Due to this fact, I imagine individuals on this nation can personal weapons, however provided that these weapons conform to the expertise that existed when the Structure was written. So, let individuals exit in public with their muskets and blunderbusses, which might take a minute to load.
Put that in your 2nd Modification pipe and smoke it.
Luis Torres, Pasadena
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To the editor: I imagine that charging the dad or mum of the alleged Georgia faculty shooter could have zero influence as a deterrent.
However that isn’t the purpose. The purpose is stupidity. Once in a while, the stupidity of some individuals is so profound — akin to when one offers a weapon to his disturbed little one — that, prison or not, the act have to be punished and we derive some small measure of satisfaction.
Jack Spiegelman, Los Angeles
