Will U.S. ever tackle its gun problem?

Re Fatal attraction: America must end its toxic love affair with guns,

DiManno, Oct. 3 I was horrified, but certainly not shocked by news of the recent slaughter of innocent people by a deranged man with an arsenal of guns, legally obtained, his right as an American citizen.

So start the tributes, vigils, flags at half staff, messages of “thoughts and prayers,” repeated as if on a continuous loop. Press play because it has happened again. Rewind for next time.

If the slaying of all the beautiful children at Sandy Hook public school didn’t create a seismic shift in the insanity south of the border, nothing will. In a few weeks or months, the conversation will piddle away and absolutely nothing will change, except for the lives of the victims still to come. Julia Bowkun, Toronto I agree with the views Rosie DiManno expressed in her column. However, she wonders how the gunman avoided the rigorous security of Las Vegas resorts? I was in Las Vegas in April and the hotels have no security for people checking in.

No hotel I have ever been to, in Las Vegas or elsewhere, screens luggage, so it would be no problem at all for anyone to bring anything in. Unless hotels start screening luggage, as airports do, that will always be the case. Claire Beattie, Toronto Re Only the numbers change, Editorial, Oct. 3 Canadian hearts go out to those butchered and wounded by bullets in the recent mass killings in Las Vegas.

As the Star reports, based on the U.S. definition of a “mass shooting” (four or more persons shot or killed at the same general time and location), so far in 2017, mass shootings have occurred in the U.S. 270 times.

On average, 92 Americans die from guns each day. Who would stand for that kind of record? Morley Wolfe, Brampton