When will leaders actto sluggish gun violence?
Re: “Gunfire at party leaves 4 dead” (Web page A1, Dec. 1).
Over what ought to have been a weekend of gratitude and household gatherings, our communities have been confronted as soon as once more with devastating headlines of gun violence. The lack of harmless lives at a kids’s birthday celebration close to Stockton is a heartbreaking reminder of how fragile security has develop into on this nation. What number of extra lives should be reduce brief?
How for much longer do kids should worry going to highschool or being out of their communities? Gun violence in the USA continues yr after yr, abandoning households with grief, kids carrying trauma into their school rooms and neighborhoods residing in worry.
Addressing gun violence shouldn’t be about taking away folks’s rights; it’s about defending harmless lives. Our communities should really feel protected, and our leaders have a duty to reply with the urgency this disaster calls for. Our communities are relying on it.
Mariana BecerraSan Jose
Constructing design shouldaccommodate security
Re: “Car crashes through popular coffee shop” (Web page B1, Nov. 29).
It’s now critically apparent that there’s a determined want for a change within the constructing code with regard to automobile crashes.
Too many accidents involving automobiles penetrating retailer and restaurant partitions are occurring yr after yr. It doesn’t matter if the enterprise is an workplace or a retailer; buyer and worker security is being compromised. 7-11 shops have gotten the message after years of recurring accidents, and now every retailer location has a wall of carefully spaced security bollards surrounding every constructing’s perimeter.
What number of extra folks must be injured or killed earlier than the constructing code is up to date to satisfy this important risk? Any enterprise with automobile parking heaps or street-facing perimeters should be protected, or this ongoing challenge will proceed.
Michael AlvaradoSan Jose
Even sellers geta shot at pardons
Re: “Trump plans to pardon ex-Honduran president for drug trafficking sentence” (Web page A3, Nov. 29).
On the one hand, that is arduous to fathom; on the opposite, we’re speaking about President Donald Trump.
Having supposed drug smugglers killed with out habeas corpus, after which pardoning a U.S. court-convicted drug trafficking and weapons expenses kingpin, who apparently had a good trial, which has already failed one attraction, is method, method past the pale. Oh, it appears it’s as a result of he was “treated very harshly and unfair” (DJT). I’m wondering what you name being blown out of the water for primarily doing the identical factor?
Right here, there isn’t any guessing that in case you have the cash, you can also make up or purchase your personal guidelines. Or, maybe in case you have no cash, however have the products on somebody, that may work too.
Terry LechnerSan Jose
Trump’s cruelty sits wellwith almost 40%
Re: “Trump proposes stop on migrants” (Web page A1, Nov. 29).
I hope this MAGA factor is waning, as a result of this isn’t the nation that I need. I’ve labored arduous and performed by the foundations. I’ve been proud that America has been a optimistic pressure on the planet, and I’ve believed in our future.
However proper now, I’m not very pleased with my nation. I don’t like the place we’re headed beneath the erratic management, when you name it that, of Donald Trump. Promoting out Ukraine, ICE separating kids from their dad and mom and placing them in cages, and the blatant racism and sexism Trump displays every day make me unhappy. Our standing on the planet is in jeopardy, as is our financial system. The lawlessness, meanness and chaos that pervade every part from this administration are simply miserable.
It troubles me that his approval score stays at almost 40%, that 40% of my fellow Individuals assume that is okay.
Dave RiggsAptos
Hegseth’s ‘draw fire’ quipis a explanation for concern
Re: “Gunfire wounds troops in D.C.” (Web page A1, Nov. 27).
My heartfelt condolences to the households of the Nationwide Guard members who have been shot just lately. It’s appalling that we proceed to witness gun violence in many of the U.S. Higher gun management legal guidelines will cut back these numbers; everyone knows that, however gun lobbies rule legislators.
What I’m wondering is why these guard members have been there within the first place? When Pete Hegseth advised generals to “draw fire,” is that this what he meant? Did he and Donald Trump count on this end result so they might additional deploy guard members to our cities, maybe to additional distract from the Epstein case?
Sue KensillSan Jose
