Uncommon incident illogically labeled

In his Aug. 23 account of the horrid story of the 5-year-old whose gun discharged at school, you allow your reporter to editorialize that it “isn’t uncommon” for students in Memphis to bring guns to school. I don’t know how he defines “common,” but if you take the total number of students, multiply by the number of school days and work out the percentages using the number of students known to have brought guns, I’d wager the resulting figure would not meet a rational definition of what is common.

In my children’s 31 student-years at city schools, I know of one incidence in which a gun was found at one of their schools. City schools face innumerable intractable problems without logic-challenged editorializing in news stories that are perfectly awful reflections of a sick society on their own.