Blaming mental illness, guns, illegal immigration ...

Why do we keep blaming our mass shooting problem on mental illness? Women and girls have just as high a rate of mental illness but do not engage in this type of behavior. What we have is uncontrolled anger in concert with weapons of mass destruction. Failing to do anything about these types of weapons will only increase the monitoring and surveillance of all of us, eroding our freedoms, slowly but surely.

In simple words, it’s not mental health issues that cause gun violence — it’s a culture of anger. It’s time to stop blaming those with mental health issues, and lay blame on those (including our president) who incite and promote anger.

With the open-carry law in Texas and some of the people packing in Walmart, where was the good guy with a gun to take out the bad guy with a gun? So much for the NRA talking points.

I am willing to talk about reasonable gun control laws. I’ll even set aside what I have to say about the Second Amendment, and turn to the Fourteenth, instead. What have you got that will protect me and mine from rogue law enforcement with high-capacity magazines on their assault weapons (and even armored fighting vehicles — remember Ferguson, Mo.?) equally as vigorously as it protects the rest of society from the tools to resist being deprived of our lives, liberty, and property which we might choose?

Letter writer Wes Campbell reminds us that Trump is opposed only to illegal immigration. Trump, and probably Campbell, surely would have been opposed to Rosa Parks’ occupation of a whites-only seat on the bus, because that was also “illegal.” Anyone with an ounce of compassion would decry our criminalization of human beings fleeing gangs, murder and famine.