Address real problem

I have read all the heartfelt and emotional letters published after the latest mass-murder school shooting in Texas. Few letters offered a sensible solution. No one seems to address what I believe is the real problem, which is that many kids never receive the slightest moral training or respect for life.

Before you start shouting for the repeal of the Second Amendment or vilify the NRA, please stop to count how often you have read of NRA members who have gone berserk and commit mass murder; that’s right, you never heard of such a thing. It is sad that so many people never learn to tell the good guys from the bad guys. I suggest that you look in the mirror and ask yourself if you have raised your kids with a solid moral foundation, which usually means attending church and a degree of love and fear of God.

My proposals for laws to reduce criminal violence with guns may be draconian, but are better than hand-wringing: (1) That biological parents of the murdering minor, wherever they may be, receive stiff prison terms, along with their rotten kids. They have miserably failed in their primary responsibility. (2) That the age for civilian kids to own any semiautomatic weapon be raised to 21. Further, that anyone who makes semiautomatic weapons available to unsupervised minors, either by carelessness or intent, be severely fined. Weapons stored at home belong in gun safes. (3) That anyone so uninformed that they commonly use the false and political term “assault rifle” when meaning semiautomatic rifle never have their opinion published.

Full disclosure: I have been an NRA member for about 50 years and am too old to have the slightest interest in ugly black military-style rifles; “modern sporting rifles” is the accepted term, if you care, but I prefer my description.

WIL WING Bella Vista