Letters to the editor:

How stunningly ironic that the commentary piece by Bruce Kluger, which touched on the proximity of our children to the horrors of maniacs mass killing people, was published a day before a first-grade class was gunned down ("Kids aren't safe even with Santa," Thursday).

I can barely see through the tears to write this. Our country must wake up to this horror and reform gun control. Seriously. Without political prejudice. In 1993, I wrote a letter to the editor regarding the gun debate that was going on then, before Columbine, ad nauseam and now, Connecticut. It seems nothing has changed. Profoundly sad.

Caren Callaway Newman; San Antonio

In so many mass shootings, the shooter has been determined to be sick. When are we going to start holding parents and people in authority accountable for getting these sick people treatment? Also, when are we going to start holding the highly trained and paid medical community accountable for identifying and treating these people?

I don't think any gun laws would have prevented these mass shootings. Sick and bad people figure out how to get guns. The people and doctors who knew these people over the years are the ones who could have prevented these tragedies.

Frank Jesionowski; Vine Grove, Ky.