Our schools have metal detectors. Some teachers carry guns. Our kids have lockdown drills.
Can you imagine what a seven- or eight-year old child must be thinking? Am I going to die? The trauma cannot be measured. Fear is the unknown. Why can’t we have common-sense gun laws and stronger red flag laws?
The Georgia shooter was on the authorities’ radar. The Uvalde, Texas shooter was on their radar. Sadly, it was too late. This should not have to be a fact of life. Never!
We don’t need more security in our schools, we need politicians to step up and do what’s right. The answer is right in front of us, and yet we don’t see it. This is not who we should be. We need common-sense gun laws and strong red flag laws.
Pat Eland, Delray Beach
Just keep quiet, JD
There’s an old adage that vice presidential nominee JD Vance should bear in mind: Better to remain silent and let people think you’re stupid than to speak up and forever remove all doubt.
In recent days, Vance made two utterly ridiculous comments related to the Georgia school shooting. His claim that school shootings are “a fact of life” shows how clueless he is. Mass casualty shootings do not have to be a fact of life. Such tragedies are rare in most civilized countries, so why are they so common here?
Along with that lame response was Vance’s claim that Kamala Harris would take away law-abiding American citizens’ guns. This is a scare tactic, perpetrated by the NRA and the MAGA Kool-Aid crowd. I challenge anyone to point to one credible call from Harris to take away guns.
People want responsible gun laws. I’ve never heard a reasonable argument against background checks or simple rules governing gun show sales. I have a number of friends who are avid hunters; not one has used an assault weapon to go hunting. Assault weapons should be for law enforcement and the military only.
Neanderthal thinking clouds rational thought. All we get from these people are “thoughts and prayers,” as more teachers and children are gunned down. If we, as a supposedly civilized country, want to stop this horrific wholesale slaughter, we need to elect politicians with the guts to impose sensible gun laws. No more thoughts and prayers.
Dr. Mark N. Levine, Coconut Creek
RFK’s possible fate
Imagine the fun Donald Trump had getting a Kennedy to endorse him. But it’s nothing compared to the total joy Trump dreams of the day he will tell Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “You’re fired!” soon after Kennedy starts his promised job in a possible Trump administration.
Trump had a revolving door in the Oval Office. He will relish being able to overpower a Kennedy to prove his superiority. How sad and awful for RFK Jr. to make such irresponsible, embarrassing decisions affecting us all. Doesn’t he know Trump for the liar he’s proven to be over and over again?
Elin Shusterman, Boynton Beach
Who’s gullible enough?
Does anyone out there truly believe that our autocratic, book-banning, egomaniacal governor, who has his thumb on everyone and everything in Tallahassee, was not fully aware of the deplorable “half-baked” plan to make our state parks more “user-friendly” by adding golf courses and hotels? If so, I have a bridge in New York I would like to sell you.
Ray Koterba, Miramar
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