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Editor,
Watching a famous sporting event the other day, I saw thousands of happy people lined up enthusiastically cheering the participants of the Tour de France. I hated to think of what might happen had this race been in the U.S. and the anxieties and fears such an event would evoke. I don’t really need to suggest it before it’s in your mind too. Gun violence in this country is out of control. The crux of the problem was well stated by the mayor of Chicago, speaking about the tragedy in her city on the 4th: every country has mentally ill people, but people in every country don’t have access to weapons of war like those in the U.S. do.
That’s why adults and children are slaughtered here to the extent that we nearly take it for granted. This is not the sign of a healthy society. We need to vote out lawmakers who are not willing to eliminate sales of weapons of war to Americans. How many more children have to die before we will?
Eugene Beckes
St. Ignatius
