Letters: Doing nothing about guns is no longer an option
Briefly

School attendance has become perilous as children and adults are killed or wounded in mass shootings driven by individuals who obtain assault weapons. Republican legislative actions are framed as enabling access to those weapons, with K-12 shootings occurring multiple times since the school year began, according to Everytown for Gun Safety. Gerrymandering undermines fair representation, and a national ban is advocated, yet a near-term mid-cycle redistricting measure is urged to prevent election theft. Specific concern focuses on engineered congressional seats in Texas and voter suppression that could tip national elections, prompting a call to pass Proposition 50.
More dead children, dead because they were shot by what we now know is the classic American mass shooter our uniquely native-born young person whose craziness, whose need to destroy, won't be contained because Republican legislators make sure he has access to assault weapons. Going to school has become one of the riskiest things a child can do. Why? Unbelievably, someone in America is today planning an assault on a school district that we won't identify until more children are dead.
We need a national ban on it, but until after the 2028 election, we must make this desperate effort to stop Donald Trump from stealing our chance to put an end to his fascist takeover. The five congressional seats he has had engineered to win with gerrymandering in Texas, combined with the aggressive voter suppression the Republicans are pursuing, could tip the election in his favor.
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