Attack on Apalachee High School in Georgia: Correspondence

The Issue: The mass shooting event at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga. that killed four.

The mass shooting in Winder, Ga., which took the lives of at least four people and injured nine others, has affected me more than previous massacres (“Back to school shoot massacre,” Sept. 5).

I guess the reason is that I didn’t have grandchildren then, but I do now. I worry about my grandkids’ safety today.

To be sure, talking about gun control is complicated, especially when the Second Amendment is part of the conversation.

Still, I wonder how many more children have to die before lawmakers wake up and smell the gunpowder.
It’s probably too late for President Biden to convene a gun-safety summit at Camp David with representatives from the NRA, school officials and grieving parents. But it’s not too late for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris to publicly embrace the idea.

Denny Freidenrich

Laguna Beach, Calif.

If a threat from someone’s child is serious enough for the FBI to come knocking on your door, the parents should immediately agree to remove all firearms from their home (“Probers ‘cleared’ suspect last year,” Sept. 6).

Otherwise, if their minor commits a crime using firearms found in their home, the parents should be arrested and charged equally with aiding and abetting their minor.

It’s unconscionable that school officials were warned a year ago that one of their students was a shooting threat, yet they didn’t monitor him or mandate that his parents keep their home gun-free.

The loved ones of the four shooting victims in Georgia should sue every Republican lawmaker who has done nothing about the 23 school shootings so far this year — especially those who refuse to demand background checks before gun purchases or ban AR-15 assault rifles.

I fear the only way Republican lawmakers will pass gun-safety legislation is if they have to pay more in damages for not protecting Americans from gun violence than the NRA pays them to protect gun sales.

Sharon Austry

Fort Worth, Texas

If GM’s biggest truck model randomly went berserk and killed people by the dozens, would we not stop production? Of course we would.

Yet one of America’s best-selling rifles, the AR-15, in the hands of a berserk, causes that kind of carnage, often without any sign of stopping.

I can’t imagine the state of terror for children in “safe rooms,” waiting to be shot one by one.

We’re allowing a capitalist-promoted “commodity,” the AR-15, to turn life in America into something worse than the fictional “Hunger Games” — and as barbaric as Rome’s Colosseum.

Tom Lellis

Brooklyn

Killers’ motivation is often about fame — to get someone to look at them.

So, let’s make it less wonderful to be noticed. We should publicly humiliate the perpetrator and march them through the school on live TV.

Celeste Beccalori

Douglaston

What should have been a joyous back-to-school season in Winder, Ga., has become another horrific reminder of how gun violence continues to tear our communities apart. Students across the country are learning how to duck and cover instead of how to read and write. We cannot accept this as normal.

Paul Bacon

Hallandale Beach, Fla.

The shooting at a high school in Georgia is another reminder of how unsafe our schools are.
Schools are supposed to be places of safety, learning, and teaching. Yet America is turning into a literal shooting gallery from coast to coast.

John Amato

Fresh Meadows

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