To the editor:

Schools need to be secured with one way entrances and armed trained personnel. When some lunatic posts on social media about shooting up a school or killing someone, it should be reported immediately to the police.

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MEPD Ret

"I say "We" and mean it, because most Americans join me in these views."

No! They really don't.

They see this for what it is. The step-by-step incrementalism that it is.

To date, there isn't a single "Gun Safety Law" that would have prevented this tragic incidence.

And as horrific as it was, children, are still safer in schools than anywhere else, statistically, factually and realistically.

It's not the gun, it's the person and their personal mental illness.

Scott Shallcross

Complete bunk. 80 to 90 percent of Americans support background checks, most Americans support an assault rifle ban, most Americans are opposed to straw purchases, most Americans the gun loophole exception.

Bill Scott

Your letter is mis-timed, but partially correct.

Today is a bad day, in a bad week and month, to suggest that assault weapons are something valuable to the Country. Yes, we want to take them away.

We don't want to take away your hunting rifle or your shotgun. Shoot targets, quail or deer if you like, but let's make sure you're not a sociopath before we hand you the tools to do it.

I say "We" and mean it, because most Americans join me in these views. Most Americans do not want a controlling government, and most Americans and most Democrats do not identify as socialists.

Social Security, Medicaid, unemployment insurance and other similar programs? Socialist and I am for them, but a "Socialist" I am not.

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