Guns are not the problem, people

Can someone please explain to me why it is a gun’s fault when the FBI and police failed to do their job? If they had just acted on one of 30-plus tips and calls, the children shot at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida would still be alive.

Had the deputy sheriff gone inside, would some of the children still be with us? Now we hear politicians saying U.S. citizens older than 18 but younger than 21 should not be able to buy long guns. If they are too immature to have a long gun to protect their families and themselves, how can they be allowed to join the military to protect the United States?

People need to stop and think before they allow their constitutional rights to be taken away. Which one would be next? The First Amendment?

Guns have been a part of life in the USA since the beginning; what has changed in the past 30 years? Mentalhealth services, discipline, respect for others and self?

Kevin Cunningham Delaware

His theme has always been consistent. We are not a country of pretty good people. Just the opposite. He pointed out that all people are inherently out of step with God and desperately in need of a savior.

Further, his message has endured not because it is “simple,” as the editorial suggested. Truth has an interesting way of enduring. Finishing the piece with a quote from someone mocking Graham’s beliefs, but flattering him as a person is particularly incongruous. I am disappointed that The Dispatch could not recognize this “Other Viewpoint” as an insult to Graham and his life’s work.

Rather than taking offense, however, I think Graham would have simply prayed for the author.

Douglas Moore Columbus