To the Readers’ Forum:

“There’s nothing more we can do.”

The above comment can be credited to John Cornryn, Republican senator from Texas. Cornryn made that comment following the gun deaths of three school children and three adults in Nashville recently. Cornryn and fellow Republican Senator Ted Cruz feel that the GOP can do nothing more to keep our children safe from gun violence. In other words, their hands are tied. That may be true — both Cornryn and Cruz have accepted over $400,000 from the NRA while opposing attempt to address out-of-control gun deaths. These gun deaths occur nearly daily, including gun deaths of innocent school children.

Can you imagine dropping a child off at school and never seeing that child again?

There’s “nothing more they can do?”

Those Nashville gun deaths also exposed Tennessee Republican senator Marcia Blackburn as a recipient of NRA generosity, while she opposes any gun safety legislation. Follow the money?

Most of the country was outraged when a Nashville supermajority voted to oust two Black Democrat duly elected legislators. Their crime – speaking opposition to the lack of support for any attempt to support legislation aimed at curbing gun violence. That GOP decision was quickly overturned. Simply another GOP failed attempt to overturn the will of the voters. I might add that a white female legislator who joined the two Black legislators in protest was not voted out by the supermajority. That supermajority quickly passed a bill making it more difficult to sue gun manufacturers. Recent examples of gun violence are frightening. A young Black was shot ringing the wrong doorbell. A young white woman was shot for merely backing out of the wrong driveway. Two cheerleader were shot at for approaching the wrong car. Our elected officials must put a stop to this madness. Our lives depend on sensible gun legislation.

Jamestown