Regarding the letter “Thoughts and prayers not enough to stop school shootings”: To think the Founding Fathers didn’t anticipate weapons of the future has no bearing on the Second Amendment. The Founding Fathers put in the Second Amendment to control a tyrannical government should it turn on the populace and deny us our God-given freedoms.
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Mao all banned books but also guns, thus resulting in Hitler killing 14 million people, Mao between 45 million and 75 million and Stalin 8.5 million people. There are many more examples of the evil men do when a populace is disarmed.
As far as sane gun laws go, the USA has over 10,000 gun laws on the books. Now the crazy and evil folks who kill are exactly that — crazy and/or evil. Many of these mass killers passed a stringent background check where they legally got their guns.
Yes, we have more law enforcement now than in the past, but it is still up to individuals to protect themselves and their families. Law enforcement in most cases shows up after the fact.
Harold Murphy
New Kensington