Don’t name mass shooters

Most of these mass shooters are losers, who in their minds, have nothing to live for. They are saying to themselves that the world is going to know who they were. They consider themselves potential celebrities.

But the incidence of mass killings and the whackos who do the shooting can be reduced easily. The federal government should pass a law prohibiting the media from revealing the picture or name of the individual involved. Give them zero publicity as an individual.

Make them aware that they will never be recognized for their heinous act. They will remain the losers that they were before the shooting.

Les Weinberg,

Ban assault weapons

Obviously, we have a problem with guns in our country. Assault weapons should be totally banned. These people have more fire power than the police.

Background checks and keeping weapons away from the mentally ill are important, but the cure to saving potentially thousands of people is removal of these weapons from the general population.

Anything else will take too long and not be effective. I do not know why normal people would be against this action.

Stanley Greenbaum,

GOP in bed with NRA

President Trump’s racists rhetoric has aided and abetted the mass carnage we have witnessed in recent days. I have 2 granddaughters, ages 23 and 25, who live in Texas. I fear for their lives each time they go to a concert or to the mall.

The only way to address this carnage is to vote this president out of office, and to do the same for Republicans in the U.S. Senate, because they are both in bed with the National Rifle Association.

Philip Berman,

Follow New Zealand’s lead

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, our inalienable rights, according to the Declaration of Independence. Nowhere does it say death, mass murder and living in fear — yet that is America today.

Military weapons in the hands of angry men who can murder on a whim, killing hundreds in minutes. Malls, churches, synagogues, concerts, festivals — places we gather to commune and they mow us down. Who can stop this daily bloodshed?

Your elected officials could stop it tomorrow if they wanted to. But why would they? The ones who beholden to the NRA and the gun lobby, their true masters, will do nothing, have done nothing, to protect us.

New Zealand outlawed assault weapons two weeks after the Christchurch massacre. It’s that easy. It’s time to stop wringing our hands and take to the streets — or live in fear that the next massacre is ours. We have a choice.

Barbara Markley,

Delray Beach

Delray Beach

Boca Raton

Fort Lauderdale

Mass shooting fears

With 46 men, women, and children shot in El Paso on Saturday — at least 22 fatally — my teenage daughter confided to me that every time she goes out in public she fears getting shot.

I had never heard her say that before, and I think it’s another wake-up call for legislative action on gun safety. Worse, was my daughter’s remark that, “This happens all the time and no one ever does anything.”

Youth who have never experienced gun violence, who don’t know anyone who has been a victim or survivor of gun violence, now feel and fear gun violence.

Because of our inaction, gun violence is now claiming a different kind of casualty, psychologically infecting our children, who are now afraid of being gunned down simply walking out of the house.

We have put profit over public safety and “the right to bear arms” over “a wellregulated militia,” and we should be ashamed of the damage that has done to our children.

Scott Benarde,

West Palm Beach