Ending school shootings requires multi-faceted solution
Everyone has a solution for the tragic school shootings. Someone may rant about the size of the weapons, another about the age of the gun holder, then mental health, school guards, security cameras and doors. We are merely arguing in circles when it’s not just one thing, it’s many things, and we should start addressing those issues now. We need more good influence from home; less influence from Hollywood and violent video games; commonsense gun laws that shouldn’t be too hard to figure out; community role models speaking in the schools; and students, themselves, taking responsibility to befriend those outliers who have trouble fitting in. It often takes just one friend to make a kid feel worthwhile; students can easily zero in on those who need a friend. I suggest a campaign in the schools that addresses that need. Call it, “It’s Up to ME,” and talk openly about it in school settings and at school rallies. Don’t push those on the outside over to the dark side. Let’s do it NOW!
MEL MATUSZAK, DACULA
Not seeing Trump’s flaws puts U.S. at risk
Regarding the defense given by the self-described Christian evangelical conservative of his vote for Donald Trump (“Trump far better than crooked Hillary,” Readers Write, March 7), one can only think that if this is how Trump voters describe the president (as having “many, many…gross moral flaws”), our country really is in deep trouble. It truly defies belief to think the level of corruption and utter disregard for previously honored norms would, in a Clinton presidency, come anywhere close to reaching what we’ve seen over the last 14 months. Indeed, instead of having the media push a socialist/communist” agenda (as the letter writer fears), we now seem to have a KGB-trained communist controlling the decisions made by our commander-in-chief. Unless as a country we all own up to what we’ve done in creating the current state of affairs, there is little chance things can ever improve.
SANJAY LAL, STOCKBRIDGE
