Parents and grandparents must demand an end to these weekly nightmares that have made students afraid at school.
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Editor's note: Due to the volume of Letters to the Editor regarding the school shooting in Noblesville, IndyStar will devote a page to sharing your voices.As a grandfather of a student at Noblesville West Middle School, I like so many was first filled with fear for the safety of my grandchild and the other kids at the school. The fear was soon replaced by shock that this could have happened in the town I once lived and where she lives now — Noblesville — a peaceful place. But all of us now know it can happen anywhere. Of course it would have been much worse if not for a heroic teacher. However, can we always depend on a heroic teacher being able to stop a shooter? There was a school resource officer at the school as there should be at every school in America today. But that doesn't seem to be enough. There were the "thoughts and prayers" of various politicians as in most of the other school and mass shootings around the nation in the past. It's nice but that certainly hasn't prevented more school shootings and mass murders.Only one of the political leaders has even supported universal background checks which polls show 86 percent of Americans support. Where are the rest? What are their solutions? Because we, parents and grandparents, must demand an end to these weekly terrible nightmares that have made students afraid at school.Most school shootings have been by students. Where are they getting the guns? Among other solutions perhaps we need to harden the criminal and civil penalties for those negligent parents who do not take protective measures such as puttingRead more from our friends at the NRA
