When Is This Going To Stop?

I turned the TV on today, and again I see another shooting, this time at an Oregon school. Yesterday, a couple in Las Vegas went crazy and killed three innocent people, including two police officers. When is this going to stop? When will our country, states, and cities impose laws to keep powerful weapons off our streets and out of the hands of people who are not stable enough to have them?   

In schools alone since 2000 there have been over 190 deaths, and over 230 injuries. In most of these cases a young student was doing the shooting. Why and how did they get a gun? Why don't we have more security in our nation's schools? These kids who were killed or injured are our future; we need to protect them!   

My wife and I are retired, but I am really scared for not only our families but everyone in our world. If we don't put a stop to weapons that are so powerful, or people that should not have weapons, it will be a bleak future for our society.

Ken Ehlert

Longtime resident of Parma, Union Member for the last 50 years, Democratic Precinct Committee Member in Ward 1

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Volume 6, Issue 7, Posted 11:22 AM, 07.01.2014