The cancer of gun violence will touch us all

The Wear Orange rally June 2 at Market Square shows why the gun violence issue in America won’t go away.

A friend and I attended and were greatly disappointed that only about 150 people showed up. State Rep. Dan Frankel was there, but where were other legislators? Counting their National Rifle Association money?

America has the attention span of a tweet.

The Parkland, Fla., killings and the good work of the students there stirred anger and activism. But now we’re done with that. We’ll move on.

Wake up, America. We are dealing with a cancer that eventually will touch us all if we don’t do something to correct it. BOB KARLOVITS

Shaler

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history, and so on. The point of exams is to let the teachers know that the students have digested what is being taught. The pressure of too much homework, worry about not excelling and not enough time to relax can cause depression and a sense of not being good enough. The result of this can be thoughts of suicide.

Education is not just learning facts, but learning how to live. A computer is full of facts but has no life in it. It does not love, feel, enjoy, live. It is a robot. We cannot turn our children into robots, full of facts, excelling at exams, entering the best colleges, etc. If we try to do that, we are killing the very life that God gave them.

If we turn our schools and colleges into machines that pour facts into students, those students will not make it, because they were not created to be robots. Our children are not machines to be fed data like a computer.

Something has to be done. These are our children, our future, our hope. THERESE McKENZIE

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