To the editor:
After the last mass shooting in the school in Tennessee there have been more outcries to ban assault weapons. I am not a gun owner and I have no problem in banning these weapons. But just banning assault rifles will not solve the problem. If you are going to ban weapons, it needs to be every repeating rifle. Even that is not going to protect our children in our schools.
If you are depending on the federal government to protect your childen, that probably is not going to happen. The only way that our children in public or private schools are going to be safe in school is if every town, city, school district in America takes it upon themselves to provde the safety our children deserve.
To do this it would mean changing our priorities on how we spend our school funds.
Instead of building a new gym or weight room or football field or band room, even a tornado shelter, maybe it should be safety measures for locking down the schools. So we have to ask ourselves, what is the price of my child’s safety (life). I realize it could cost upwards of a quarter of a million dollars to put enough police officers in the Newcastle Schools. If you raised my taxes so that these wonderful kids were safe in school I would say thank you!
Thomas M. Lassen Newcastle
