Start at the top

In response to “We Are in Trouble,” the July 8 column by PG editorial director Keith C. Burris: Yes, Mr. Burris, indeed we are in trouble because people like you refuse to embrace serious solutions to our problems. You ask what can be done about the all-too-frequent shootings in our schools, streets, offices, cinemas, malls, concerts, sporting venues, restaurants, churches and homes? The serious solution is simple but politically unpalatable to our bought-and-paid-for Congress.

Basic facts: more guns = more gun deaths. Less guns = less gun deaths.

This has been proved to be true by the vast majority of the international community that have the common sense and guts to legislate accordingly. If you want to play with guns, join the military. Or learn to enjoy shooting hoops, pool, craps or the breeze instead of guns.

The alternative is to accept the daily carnage as the price to pay for our delirious worship of a misrepresented Second Amendment.

Yes, Mr. Burris, we do have a sick American soul that continues to allow a disgusting person to disgrace the office of the president, erode our international credibility, undermine our democratic institutions and the rule of law and separate children from their parents so he can pretend to be a tough guy, when in reality he is a cowardly person who avoided the draft and is afraid of his own shadow.

Please, Mr. Burris, spare us your preaching about the necessity of a religious revival to save us. I know atheists who have more compassion, morality and common decency than the hypocritical religious evangelicals who support a pathological sinner who brags about assaulting women, has adulterous affairs with porn stars, praises ruthless dictators, lies every time he opens his big mouth and uses religion to scam his pathetically gullible base.

If you want to begin healing our American soul, start at the top.

MAGA! THOMAS G. LIEBENGUTH Jefferson Hills