Stay angry and get reforms passed

I was disappointed in President Barack Obama's memorial speech in Tucson, Ariz., on Jan. 12. I found it to be a toothless attempt at “healing.” Let's try something different. Let's not heal. Instead, let's stay so angry about what happened that we actually do something to prevent it from happening again.

And it will happen again, because no member of Congress has the courage to say, “We've got to do something about these stupid guns.”

So gun violence will continue, and people will shake their heads, ain't that a tragedy, and be glad it wasn't them. Or maybe there will be another flurry of memorials and talking heads arguing about who is to blame.

But nothing will be done because the rights of the individual have become more important than the welfare of the whole, and the right to own guns - even guns made to slaughter many people in a very short time - has become more important than the right of all of us to go anywhere in public and feel safe from a handgun's bullet. Is this America's destiny?

Sheri Albrecht

Walford