After reading S.E. Cupp’s slant on the two most recent massacres (“Buffalo, Uvalde and the American psyche,” June 3, TribLIVE), I can say I stopped watching the news on TV. When they started showing each victim of the Uvalde massacre, it was too much for me to watch. All the shootings means it will not stop. Those children hadn’t lived long enough to show a life’s work.

I agree with President Biden: Something must be done to stop these shootings. I’m a prime example of someone who should not own a gun, or even a knife, because of the possibility of harming myself or others. Gary Franks’ column “School prayer could stem mass shootings” (June 3, TribLIVE) was right on the money. You see, I have bipolar disorder, and there is no cure. Medicine can treat the symptoms, but can’t cure it. I normally would not hurt another person, but with bipolar disorder, I have built up an immunity to the medicine and can lose myself.

Video games are putting ideas into people’s heads to kill people. In the old days, this was not so. Clayton Moore, who played the Lone Ranger, did a commercial asking kids to send in box tops with money for a toy gun that shot rubber bullets. He told the kids, never point a gun at another person, only at the target. That is how it was. It can be again.

William Weiss

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