Letters to the editor for Tuesday, June 14, 2016

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Culture of mass shootings needs to change

In response to the Orlando shooting, they were just kids, my age, a lot of them with my same sexual identity.

All they wanted was to go out have fun with friends and just forget about life for one night. Forget about the world. Early that morning a gunman decided that wasn’t OK and took 50 lives, 50 souls who were thinking of careers, settling down, changing the world.

This guy decided that this wasn’t good enough, that their lives should be forfeit. Why? Why has this country become a country of mass shootings? Why when this happens (almost monthly I might add) do lawmakers look at it and think “Oh, so tragic. It’s just a once in a lifetime thing, though.”

I guess we as humans have the propensity to forget. Think to yourself for a second, what if this was your kid, your brother, sister, cousin, best friend and you were told by the rest of the world to forget about it. When would you say no? When would you say something?

I don’t know what, but something needs to change. A mass shooting culture is not something that is normal.

When will we start saying enough? How many more lives have to be sacrificed? Because at the rate we’re going someday somewhere down the line you are going to directly know someone affected by the United States’s mass shooting culture. When will we stop taking the easy way out? When will things change?

Caleb Schadeck

Carson City