The Issue: This week’s fatal shootings at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis.I can’t believe it has happened again (“Deadly Refrain,” Dec.18).Monday’s shooting in Madison, Wis., which left at least two dead and several wounded, came a couple days after the 12th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn.Dating back to when President Barack Obama was in office, each time there has been a school shooting, I have urged the sitting president to convene a gun-safety summit.Fifty of my neighbors co-signed a letter to President Biden on the subject.
I thought someone in the White House would respond.Unfortunately, no one ever did.So now, another school shooting has occurred, leaving grieving parents and friends to wonder why.
If you ask me, it didn’t have to happen.Denny FreidenrichLaguna Beach, Calif.It’s a sad day in America when yet another school shooting has taken innocent lives and families are left to grieve.What makes it even worse is that this tragedy occurred just a week before Christmas.But in the meantime, let us hope that a copycat school shooting does not come on the heels of the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis.We don’t need another tragedy.JoAnn Lee FrankClearwater, Fla.Yet another tragic school shooting has occurred, with several students injured, one student and a teacher killed, as well as the shooter shooting and killing herself.Why are these terrible events continuing to happen in America?Congress needs to pass more stringent gun-control laws to get these weapons off the streets and to prevent people who should not be able to get these weapons, like this teenage shooter, from being able to acquire them.Schools are supposed to be safe havens for teaching and learning, not war zones.John AmatoQueensAnother school shooting and people continue to blame lack of gun control.
Just for the record, during my school days there were fewer school shootings.JR CummingsManhattan Morning...