Reflecting on Sandy Hook

Regarding “Mental health bill skirts gun politics” (Page A1, Dec. 4), we have had far too many moments of silence since the tragedy of Sandy Hook. Our children and community deserve real action to stop the epidemic of gun violence in our country. We’re not alone and we’re not helpless. There are many seemingly simple, yet powerful things we can do today!

More and more of our neighbors are uniting to bring the change we need. Calls are being made to Congress for commonsense gun reform, peaceful rallies are taking place in cities across the country, and families and friends are gathering together in their own living rooms to talk about bringing violenceprevention programs to their schools.

There is reason to have hope that we can prevent gun violence before it happens through sensible gun safety laws and programs in our schools and communities that help us identify the signs and signals before a shooting happens and intervene.

To keep this hope alive and bring the change we need contact your representative in the U.S. Congress and ask that he or she support gun violence prevention legislation to keep guns out of dangerous hands, and secondly, make the promise at www.sandyhookpromise.org and help bring Sandy Hook Promises’s no-cost, violence prevention programs to our schools and communities. Rebecca M. Tobin,

Beaumont