Suzyjax - Apparently you did not see the ETC, which means “and so on.”

Anonaman & slamfist - The letter writer brought up gun control to prevent such deaths and you both brought up the mental health issue in response. Saying you are “looking for an easy answer” was not meant as an insult and I apologize if you took it that way. My point is that everyone is trying to wrap their mind around something that doesn’t make sense and looking for answers when sometimes there isn’t one. It is just too complicated to say “if we had gun control, if someone had a CCW or if mental health care was better.” Yes, mental health care could definitely be better, but in this particular case I don’t believe that had any bearing and I also don’t believe more gun control would have prevented it.

Oh, one thing I would like to mention about mental health care. In my job I meet a lot of people who DEFINITELY need help and/or medication. The problem is that THEY don’t think they have a problem or need medication and they cannot be forced to get treatment. While access to care and cost can be a problem, the bigger problem is how do you get someone who is mentally ill to understand they are sick and need the help and voluntarily go and get it?

Garrison…just wondering, is it your personal mission about this gun control policy ?? Has you or your family been affected by guns, hence your fascination.

Suzy use your brain a little to read between the lines…stop trying to take everything literally.
Do you have any common sense??

I’m sure kinkyhead would have been able to get his dirty hands on a gun even with stricter gun control legislation. He was determined to avenge the caucasians who wronged him in his own little empty head.

Gun control isn’t the answer.

After watching a local St. Louis television station’s interview of City Attorney John Hessel, I couldn’t help but think how he and other victims of Thursday night’s shooting tragedy in Kirkwood, Mo., might have fared better with the help of concealed firearms.

Among the 30 or so gathered in the Kirkwood City Hall meeting room that night, only one trained and qualified person — Officer Tom Ballman — carried a firearm. Had only one other trained person carried a firearm into the meeting that night, the number of dead and wounded might have been greatly reduced. Surprisingly, Kirkwood city laws don’t entirely prevent it!

Read more about it here.

Mr. Farmer….With the exception of the shooter, the “senseless deaths” were people performing or documenting public service to our free society. You minimize the wanton evil of the attacks by focusing on the tool used rather than the deliberate action.

You also do a disservice to the millions of honest citizens who safely and legally own firearms of all types.

Think/…that’s intelligent. You think I’m praying for a massacre so I can prove my point? Massacre’s happen in this country everyday. I don’t want to be sitting at a Ram’s game and be a victim to prove my point.

I’m talking about the accessibility of guns. Why does the NRA want to saturate our society with semi-automatic weapons? Why is the NRA second to the healthcare industry in the number of lobbyists and campaign contributions? Why does the NRA want to legalize cop-killer bullets? To hunt squirrels? I DON”T WANT TO TAKE AWAY ANYONE’S GUNS. I WANT TO LIMIT THE PRODUCTION OF GUNS…500 MILLION HANDGUNS ON OUR STREETS EQUALS DEATH. PHASE THEM OUT. IN 100 YEARS OUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN WILL THANK US.

It’s a little more difficult to carry 7 gallons of fuel and 75 pounds of fertilizer into a sporting event.
Fuel, fertilizer, and other chemicals serve a useful purpose in our society. Guns don’t, except to protect us from other guns….That argument is old, outdated, and it doesn’t wash.

I’m guessing if one million people had been killed by electric toaster since 1968, we would have outlawed electric toasters by now…..Just a guess.

Curious….I had a close friend killed by a gunshot wound to the head…Wrong place. Wrong time. 1983.

Mrs Garrison, would you please define “Cop Killer Bullets”?

Sub….I know you’re going to google 100 NRA websites that say cop-killer bullets are a myth.
Twelve years ago Congress prohibited the sale, manufacuring, import or possession of bullets capable of peircing bullet proof vests typically worn by police officers. But since then, some bullets have been able to skirt the ban [with NRA approval] because they’re made from plastic instead of metal….I know technology has changed, but the intent of the NRA has not.