Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kids have had access to guns in America since the Mayflower, and for hundreds of years that was not a problem. What has changed to create the senseless, willful disregard of people and property? Whether we have grown dependent on drugs or handouts, individual responsibility is going the way of dinosaurs, and it's taking America with it. ALAN HILLS Los Gatos, Calif...
...life. The deed cannot be undone but I hope we can all find it in our hearts to go forward in peace and with love for all." Even the Imperial Wizard from the nearby town of Vidor sent condolences. The Klan, he wrote, had nothing to gain from the "senseless tragedy...
...train them not to be children. Allowing emotionally immature children access to firearms is opening the door to incidents such as the one in Jonesboro as well as suicides and unintentional shootings. I urge all Americans to reconsider the U.S.'s love affair with guns in light of this senseless tragedy. SARAH BRADY, Chair Handgun Control, Inc. Washington
...teacher Shannon Wright personally. Last year a former colleague died of a heart attack while attempting to break up a fight at his school. A teacher in the same county was murdered a few years earlier by an emotionally disturbed student. The deaths of these teachers are tragic, senseless and unexplainable. And every time I give a student an F, I wonder if this student will be the demented one who will blow me away. TARA EISENHAUER EBERSOLE Baltimore...
...direct connection between violent video games and violent behavior. Given the popularity of video games over the past 25 years, we would have seen the connection long ago if it existed. Our hearts go out to the victims, and we understand the desire to find a reason for a senseless act, but to blame it on video games is wrong. CHRIS CHARLA, Editor in Chief Next Generation Brisbane, Calif...