Letters: When will our legislators act to reduce gun violence?

Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor When will leaders act to slow gun violence Re Gunfire at party leaves dead Page A Dec Over what should have been a weekend of gratitude and family gatherings our communities were confronted once again with devastating headlines of gun violence The loss of innocent lives at a children s birthday party near Stockton is a heartbreaking reminder of how fragile safety has become in this country How countless more lives must be cut short Related Articles Letters There are good reasons for California s high cost of living Letters Bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act is good start for fire safety Letters Fremont cricket field critics fear the unknown Letters We must keep pressure on lawless ICE agents Letters Walnut Creek bike path plan doesn t enhance safety How much longer do children have to fear going to school or being out in their communities Gun violence in the United States continues year after year leaving behind families with grief children carrying trauma into their classrooms and neighborhoods living in fear Addressing gun violence is not about taking away people s rights it is about protecting innocent lives Our communities deserve to feel safe and our leaders have a responsibility to respond with the urgency this problem demands Our communities are depending on it Mariana Becerra San Jose Building design should accommodate safety Re Car crashes through popular coffee shop Page B Nov It is now critically obvious that there is a desperate need for a change in the building code in regards to truck crashes Too countless accidents involving cars penetrating store and restaurant walls are occurring year after year It doesn t matter if the business is an office or a store customer and employee safety is being compromised - stores have gotten the message after years of recurring accidents and now each store location has a wall of closely spaced safety bollards surrounding each building s perimeter How numerous more people need to be injured or killed before the building code is updated to meet this critical threat Any business with automobile parking lots or street-facing perimeters must be protected or this ongoing issue will continue Michael Alvarado San Jose Even dealers get a shot at pardons Re Trump plans to pardon ex-Honduran president for drug trafficking sentence Page A Nov On the one hand this is hard to fathom on the other we are talking about President Donald Trump Having supposed drug facilitators killed without habeas corpus and then pardoning a U S court-convicted drug trafficking and weapons charges kingpin who apparently had a fair trial which has already failed one appeal is way way beyond the pale Oh it seems it is because he was treated very harshly and unfair DJT I wonder what you call being blown out of the water for essentially doing the same thing Here there is no guessing that if you have the money you can make up or buy your own rules Or perhaps if you have no money but have the goods on someone that might work too Terry Lechner San Jose Trump s cruelty sits well with nearly Re Trump proposes stop on asylum seekers Page A Nov I hope this MAGA thing is waning because this is not the country that I want I have worked hard and played by the rules I have been proud that America has been a positive force in the world and I have presumed in our future But right now I m not very proud of my country I don t like where we are headed under the erratic leadership if you call it that of Donald Trump Selling out Ukraine ICE separating children from their parents and putting them in cages and the blatant racism and sexism Trump exhibits daily make me sad Our standing in the world is in jeopardy as is our market The lawlessness meanness and chaos that pervade everything from this administration are just depressing It troubles me that his approval rating remains at nearly that of my fellow Americans think this is okay Dave Riggs Aptos Hegseth s draw fire quip is a cause of concern Re Gunfire wounds troops in D C Page A Nov My heartfelt condolences to the families of the National Guard members who were shot in recent months It is appalling that we continue to witness gun violence in the greater part of the U S Better gun control laws will reduce these numbers we all know that but gun lobbies rule legislators What I wonder is why those guard members were there in the first place When Pete Hegseth notified generals to draw fire is this what he meant Did he and Donald Trump expect this outcome so they could further deploy guard members to our cities perhaps to further distract from the Epstein episode Sue Kensill San Jose