![]() ![]() Louis, urged in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. That’s what about 200 mayors across the United States, including Lyda Krewson of St. The White House and Congress would be wise to heed the simple message on signs held by many of the demonstrators in Dayton and El Paso: “Do something.” ![]() Yet, after a short time, the funerals are over and life - and death - go on. With each new attack come the same feckless calls for action to help curb the violence. In the current tense atmosphere, just days after the mass shooting at the El Paso Walmart, he chose a terrible way to do it. Police arrested the man, who claimed he was trying to test the limits of the Second Amendment. Just last week, shoppers at a Walmart in Springfield, Mo., feared for the worst when a man entered the store with a rifle, body armor and 100 rounds of ammunition. Although none of the victims was Jewish, the shooter said he wanted to kill Jewish people before he died. ![]() Another fatal anti-Semitic attack took place in late April at the Chabad synagogue in Poway, Calif., where one person was killed and three were injured.Ĭloser to home, in April 2014, a 73-year-old shooter killed three people at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom, both in Overland Park, Kan. Some targeted specific groups, such as the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, where 11 worshippers died on a Shabbat in October. This year and last, more than 400 mass shootings have shattered the peaceful expectations of Americans. Before that atrocity could be processed came news of another bloodbath, in an entertainment district of Dayton, Ohio, where nine people died and a score were wounded before fast-acting first responders shot and killed the gunman. In El Paso, Texas, it was in a gunman in a crowded Walmart who had posted a hate-filled manifesto railing against immigrants and “the Hispanic invasion of Texas.” He killed 22 people, including a couple shielding their 2-month-old baby, and injured more than two dozen. With numbing certainty, more mass shootings of innocent men, women and children will occur in more American cities, many of them at the hands of highly unstable people who bought into vicious screeds on various websites. ![]()
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