To the Editor:
Thank you, Mr. Mellerup, for breaking through the wailing about the whales and putting something in the paper that we should really cry about: gun violence (“Today’s US Gun Industry Is Like Indian Traders of Yore,” 4/12).
It’s especially ironic that the NRA National Convention took place just days after yet two more mass shootings: six dead in a Tennessee school including three 9-year-olds, another five in a Kentucky bank and a young police officer fighting for survival after being shot in the…
April 26, 2023
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