Once again the Second Amendment has its day, this time in the sanctity of an elementary school. Six innocent lives brutally taken, three of them children.

Mentally ill persons occur in all nations, but only in gun-happy America do they enjoy a smorgasbord of battlefield weapons to choose from, all positively prohibited everywhere but here. The strong majority across the Land has said, 'Do not make these weapons available.' yet the will of a fanatic minority prevails.

the weeping and funerals continue. And continue. At this sad moment, Republicans in Congress — and those who elect them — need to be reminded that they share responsibility for the disaster in Nashville.

Ron Marsh

Tiverton