Letter to the Editor

[fasteddie]

This is from today's Rochester D & C

Focusing solely on guns in shortsighted approach

I am not a gun owner, nor do I suspect I will ever be. After the tragic Florida school shooting I have read comments like "we never had to worry about this when we were kids." The writer then espouses stricter gun control or a ban. What has changed? Are gun laws more lenient? No. Are there new weapons? No, the AR-15 has been available to the public 1963.

Technology should make background checks more thorough. Bottom line is guns and gun sales are not the sole issue. Rather, I suspect recent trends are contributing factors: violent video games of mass killing! marketed as entertainment for children; societal shifts such as increased drug use; decreased church attendance; absentee parenting; and even designating schools as gun-free zones allowing shooters to not feel threatened are contributing factors. Guns do not kill people, people kill people. Focusing solely on guns will not prevent tragedies.

[philoshop]

Tucker Carlson put it very simply and effectively:

The big question is why is our society producing more and more Nikolas Cruz's?