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None fix everything, but all help

Gun rights supporters complain about proposals for longer waiting periods when they buy a gun. Pay attention: Theres a waiting period for everything, from minutes to weeks to months.

Buy something online? We wait for delivery. Why not for guns? Last year I waited six months after placing an order for an appliance to take possession.

Now lets add better more comprehensive background checks, better red flag laws, and mandatory weapon insurance against death or injury.

None of these changes individually or collectively will stop all massacres in schools or other situations, but each will help reduce the carnage.

Finally, consider the cost, the cost to school and civic budgets. Taxpayers should be outraged. Prevention is a much better and cheaper method of controlling such murderous behavior, than is the cleanup after more massacres.

Carl Brookins, Roseville

I went to church the other morning. I sat behind a family with two young children. These little girls did what children do in church wiggle, climb on their parents laps, etc.

One of the girls was being distracting so her dad picked her up. She put her arms around her dads neck and grinned a little. That just broke my heart. I couldnt stop crying and thinking of the families in Uvalde who will never again be able to pick up or hug their precious babies. What a total nightmare that will never end.

Please think of these people and imagine this happening to you. We allow this to happen. God help us. Why?

Chris Marken, Woodbury

For the past 30 years and more, from the presidency of William Clinton, who said in one of his State of the Union messages that illegal immigration at the southern border was out of control and something must be done, to Sen. Chuck Schumer and others on both sides of the aisle who echoed that message. Nothing definitive was done to address the issue.

Six years ago, candidate Trump ran on a platform of securing that southern border and for that and other reasons, won that election, against all odds. During the four years of Donald Trumps presidency, he attempted to gain funding from Congress to close the boarder to the surge of illegal immigration, and at nearly every turn, his efforts were blocked. But his efforts did result in a significant drop in that influx.

Now we are continually faced with tens of thousands of migrants illegally crossing our border and our government is unable or unwilling to stop the flood. Reportedly the United States has the best trained, advanced and technologically superior government resources in the world, yet we/they are unable to control or stop this influx of unarmed women, children and young males into this country.

God help these United States of America if we are ever threatened with a military invasion by a foreign power.

Jim Feckey, Mendota Heights

Thank you for Its our Honor to Honor, the beautiful story of how a group of American veterans honor another fallen veteran during ceremonies at Fort Snelling. My wife and I witnessed this personally with the death of her dad, my uncle, and most recently, a brother-in-law.

Presentation of the American flag to a survivor is powerful, filled with meaning, a profound reminder that America the Great will always remember the service of her military veterans.

Someday it will be my turn. Im thanking the Honor Guard in advance.

Dave Racer, Woodbury

Looks like our presidents handlers have come up with a new stategy for the mid-terms. I didnt do it.

Lets blame the oil companies, corporate greed, Putin, the Federal Reserve and, of course, Donald Trump. Pretty sure the complicit press will jump on board with whatever they say.

Pete Bradt,Mendota Heights

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Letters: None of these gun-laws changes will save the day, but each will help - St. Paul Pioneer Press