After Santa Fe shooting, nothing will happen

LETTERS LETTERS@USATODAY.COM

While listening to and reading about the Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas, where 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis used a shotgun and a revolver (which he did not legally possess) to kill 10 people and wound 10 others, I had another sense of déjà vu. Pagourtzis is in custody. This marks the 22nd school shooting, where someone was hurt or killed, so far this year.

Will the response from the Trump administration be more “prayers and condolences”? And will the same discussion of sorrow, helplessness, outrage and another futile call for gun control ensue?

After these many school shootings, there has been a noticeable absence of action at the federal level about gun violence in America, and I am not hopeful that there will be any after this latest incident. Unless something different happens, we will just have to grit our teeth and wait for the 23rd mass shooting that will come as surely as night follows day. Ralph E. Stone San Francisco