The National Rifle Association and all our politicians will offer their condolences, their sympathies, their prayers and their best wishes. And not one will stand up, speak up, or raise one finger to stop mentally ill people from obtaining a gun, much less semi-automatic weapons with expanded magazines which have only one function, multiple killings.

Are there any rational adults in the Senate or the House of Representatives?

RONALD SLOOP, PALM BEACH GARDENS

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Once again we have a school shooting and children dead. Once again the right says this is not the time to discuss the problem. From the middle and left, I say, if not now, when?

The Second Amendment is 27 words long and nowhere is assault rifle mentioned, nor cop killer bullets nor large capacity magazines.

Let's try a sensible approach for a change.

DAN PARSONT, BOYNTON BEACH

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What will it take for Gov. Rick Scott and his Attorney General Pam Bondi to realize the first step to fight mass murders in schools is to make it illegal to own and purchase an assault rifle? How many more lives have to be lost?

Until these guns are eliminated, no child or teacher is safe in our schools.

MICHAL FLAKS, LAKE WORTH

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I am sickened to hear another member of our current White House, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spout the phrase, Now is not the time to discuss gun control.

Gun control isn't the entire answer, but if assault rifles were banned, then 17 people would not have died in Parkland. No one needs that type of weapon, even for target practice. Keep your single shot rifles and handguns if you must, but no more automatic weapons.

Stop this madness. NRA, your time must be up.

PAM WOOD, LOXAHATCHEE

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Is anyone fooled by the crass political calculation in our governor�s inarticulate ramblings after Wednesday�s shooting? When he and others on the right refer to pure evil, they're trying to shoot down the truth that reducing gun access would reduce these sorts of tragedies.

What they're saying is, This has nothing to do with our glorious guns. It's pure evil and would have happened anyway.

In the end, gun fanatics on the right, to whom the governor is playing, would rather clean up after the carnage than prevent it by applying common sense to the almighty Second Amendment. It's monstrous.

PHIL SCRUTON, BOCA RATON

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After the Parkland school shooting and many prior school shootings, there is much talk about keeping people with guns out of the schools.

Why not follow the example of the airlines, which have successfully kept guns off commercial flights? Use technology. Install metal detectors at the schoolhouse door. It is obvious.

ED WOLFF, JUPITER

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The cure for gun violence is basically simple. All teachers go on strike throughout the USA (including colleges), causing education to come to a complete halt.

This is a national emergency, worse than a hurricane, earthquake, flood or disease. It's time to stop the carnage in this country caused by the NRA and all of government. If children are not thought of as precious, then what is?

Teachers have worked hard and went to college at great expense to become qualified to teach our children, and we repay them with death or injury? What kind of country do we have and what has become of its citizens?

We cannot wait to elect people with the brains to know that guns kill people � it�s too late for that. Let's do something that will work immediately.

SONJA ZALUTKO, BOYNTON BEACH

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The Broward School District superintendent said yesterday the shooter was able to gain access to the school grounds because it was during dismissal time and it is impossible to stop someone when hundreds and thousands of kids are departing the school.

Having lived within 1 1/2 blocks of Forest Hill High School for 14 years, I have dealt first-hand with the chaos from student and parent traffic and parking that adversely impacts my neighborhood. It is clear to me that school administrators abdicate their responsibility in controlling the process.

A lot can be done but it would require the school district to actually take responsibility for how these kids come and go. How about swipe badges for each student? How about monitoring when they leave the property, from which exit, and how they are getting home?

After trying to work collaboratively to just control where the kids park off campus, I am doubtful this district, or others will take it on.

ANNE LYNCH, WEST PALM BEACH

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Horrors like that of Stoneman Douglas High School will continue to happen until there are legislative solutions to the problems of access to military-grade weapons and gun ownership by mentally disturbed individuals. Sadly, legislative solutions will not happen as long as the NRA continues to be able to buy lawmakers with millions in campaign contributions.

So here's a thought on how to stem the money flow: Organizations can be prosecuted for criminal behavior, just as individuals can. So indict the NRA for, or as an accessory to, negligent homicide for continuing to take actions that it reasonably should know, from past events, will cause unlawful deaths. If convicted, have the courts issue restraint orders against political contributions.

Similar charges could be placed against CEO Wayne LaPierre and other NRA bigwigs, possibly landing them in jail. Let the legal system take over where the political system has failed so badly. The deaths of our children cry out for justice.

JAY SCHLEIFER, WELLINGTON

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I hope that the parents of the slain students tell President Trump to stick it where the sun does not shine. He accepted $30 million dollars from the NRA and does not care about these students or anyone but his own ego.

Empty words will not help. Defunding mental health, removing the Affordable Care Act and increasing gun rights are the agenda he has remained with and will ensure that the decisions on safety are made by NRA. How has that worked so far?

GAIL BRECHER,WEST PALM BEACH

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The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted to help protect America from external attacks, as the new nation depended on local militias for national defense.

The Founding Fathers would be dismayed to see the same provision now destroying our country from within, and our elected representatives unwilling to mitigate the bloodshed by restricting ownership and sale of militarized weapons.

GARY REX, DELRAY BEACH

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I spent my early education years in the 1950s and �60�s in rural USA, and I am so glad I did.

While everyone is speaking out about the guns, I totally agree that something needs to be done to control any automatic firearms as these and other weapons are too easy to get and only the military has any need for them.

With that said, look at how our society has changed much to the worse in my view: movies and their subject matter, music and its lyrics, social media avenues that seem under no control, postings of anything on YouTube, video games that cover killing, terrorism, and on and on.

Outside influences, home life, social values, peer pressure, mental attitudes, life values, technology and more all contribute to the changes that have affected daily life. Study these factors also when debating gun control.

DOUG WINTER, WEST PALM BEACH

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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

ANY politician or political candidate, federal or state, who does not support a PERMANENT ban on the purchase of ANY assault-type weapon and bump stocks, and is not willing to vote for an IMMEDIATE STOP of purchases of such weapons until such a law is passed, should be voted out of office or never voted into office!

This is not a repeal of the Second Amendment!

In addition, the removal of such weapons from ANY retail businesses, or ANY gun show locations for such weapons, should take place, and assault-type weapons and bump stocks should be returned immediately to the manufacturers.

Also, the money trail of politicians or political candidates should be investigated as to campaign monies received from the NRA, the real culprit at hand! Let the money being made around these weapons go to improvements of a host of other needed projects.

If a brain is not fully capable of being responsible at the age of 19, then perhaps the age for purchasing guns should be raised to say 45 years of age? Why should an 18-year old be able to purchase guns?

What are thoughts and prayers going to do when people are already dead?� said a student in Parkland.

A mother in Parkland survived the Fort Lauderdale airport massacre, and now she had texts from her son at the school who survived the Parkland high school massacre.

Enough is enough.

Voters get out and vote! It is your turn!!

CAROL DUFFELL, WEST PALM BEACH

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With regard to the horrific massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Scholl, there is plenty of blame to go around.

Our law enforcement community urges us to See something, say something. This was indeed the case when the FBI was notified regarding the perpetrator's YouTube Post stating that he would be a professional shooter. No action was taken by the FBI.

Students at the school speculated Nikolas Cruz would be a potential shooter on the school campus. Why did theschool not have a monitored, single point of entry at the campus during normal class hours? Casual entry and exit to the campuses must be eliminated.A Florida state senator has already initiated a request for $100 million for school mental health aid. To what avail, when the status of those afflicted with mental health issues is not shared with law enforcement and other agencies that could prevent those individuals from obtaining weapons.

Finally, at some point in time, we must eliminate the sale of assault-style weapons to our citizenry. I am not a gun owner, yet respect the Second Amendment. However, these weapons are only necessary for our military and law enforcement communities. Perhaps one day, term limits on our legislators will eliminate the NRA's grip on our politicians by not needing to solicit contributions to their reelection campaigns. Only then can we address reasonable and responsible gun control on a nonpartisan level.

Perhaps it will take the generation of our affected students to obtain voting status before some of these issues are addressed. I pray that this is not the case. This carnage must stop.

JOSEPH AUFENANGER, TEQUESTA

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When is enough enough already? What is so difficult to order an immediate ban on the sale of assault weapons? Congress can do this in one day. The vote should be unanimous 100 percent to 0.

It�s a no-brainer. Yes, definitely, more funding is needed for mental illness, however banning assault weapons can be done immediately, whether you have mental problems or just anybody buying them. I haven't heard the governor or the president say anything about banning the sale of assault weapons. Or anyone in Congress.Why?

This should not have anything to do with being liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, or Independent. Are we putting money over peoples' lives here? There is no other answer.

Only the military and the police should have these types of weapons. Having guns is another issue. But also, there should be more stringent rules on having a gun, such as proper knowledge of the use of a gun, tests, etc.

If not, God help us all.

VINCENT STANKAY, WEST PALM BEACH

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Wayne La Pierre, the NRA chief, tells us the only response to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I am certain he considers himself one of the good guys. He is so good that he can be the judge, jury and executioner for those of us he decides are armed and bad.

So can any good Floridian who believes he may be seriously hurt or killed by another, according to the Florida Stand Your Ground Law.

George Zimmerman was innocent in the killing of Trayvon Martin, even though he was advised not to get out of his car by police, did so anyway, and then became afraid and Martin was unarmed.

Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland school assassin, may be innocent also if the jury can be convinced he was hallucinating and heard voices warning him his life was threatened by people at the school. I guess that would make him a good guy schizophrenic with a semi-automatic weapon.

I wonder if quite a lot of dead children would still be alive and going to school if everyone who exercised the right to carry a gun had been thoroughly screened and trained � and how would that screening hurt?

NELSON GOODMAN, DELRAY BEACH

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As a 30-plus year member of the NRA, I urge the NRA leadership to reconsider their position regarding controls on assault rifles such as the AR-15. These weapons, along with others such as the AK-47, are clearly the weapons of choice for mass murder in this country and the inexpressible pain caused to so many American families.

I am no gun-grabbing liberal. I have donated to many NRA-sponsored educational programs and to the NRA-ILA, NRA's lobbying arm. I am an avid hunter and strongly believe in the right of law-abiding Americans to protect their families and themselves with appropriate firearms.

It�s time to face up to the fact that there is no place in civilian society for military weapons such as the AR-15 or AK-47. These are military firearms designed to kill humans, a fact that I learned as a military veteran. There is no legitimate hunting purpose for these firearms and there are plenty of other defensive and hunting firearms available to Americans.

It�s also time to face up to the fact that no level of background checks or other bureaucratic rules can keep these military weapons from the hands of deranged or evil people who carry out these senseless acts of mass murder.

Wake up, NRA, and recognize that strict controls need to be placed on civilian ownership of these weapons of mass destruction. Unless the NRA enters the debate over assault rifles in a constructive manner, I will terminate my membership.

BEVIN BEAUDET, WEST PALM BEACH

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Rep. Brian Mast, R-Palm City, will undoubtedly be echoing the GOP party line, and President Donald Trump's lead, regarding the latest school shooting being a �mental health� issue, rather than addressing the fact that the appliances of war are easily available to killers of children. His vote last year on H.J.RES. 40, which expressly allows gun purchases by persons with mental health disabilities, certainly proves that.

RICH PAOLINO, HUTCHINSON ISLAND

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Our country has a unique epidemic of gun massacres and our president, Congress and the NRA are complicit in these senseless, tragic, regularly occurring massacres/murders.

No other country in the world has anything like this unfettered access to assault weapons, made possible by the burgeoning profits of the gun industry, which have grown to $43 billion annually from $28 billion since after Columbine. The NRA, our president and Congress should be prosecuted as unindicted co-conspirators for every victim of assault weapon violence.

It is impossible in a free society with HIPPA privacy laws in place, to meaningfully intervene and involuntarily treat the more than 75,000 mentally ill people who have unfettered access to assault weapons.

For our president to blame �neighbors and classmates� is a pathetic abdication of meaningful action and responsibility for the thousands of gun murders annually in America. In fact, Trump never mentioned guns as contributory to these horrific massacres, when it was he who rescinded the enhanced background checks for mentally ill people which were put in place by President Obama.

For the parents, families, fellow classmates, and loved ones of the victims of Parkland and similar, repetitively recurring tragedies, my heart breaks for you.

For our President, Congress and the NRA, shame on you for your inaction and complicity in these senseless massacres enabled by you.

ROBERT BRISKIN, JUPITER

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School security is fundamental to the well-being of our society. But we also need to be concerned about many other public venues where large numbers of people gather.

Las Vegas and Orlando point to outdoor concerts and nightclubs. Churches, colleges, sports stadiums shopping malls, theme parks and regional fairs come quickly to mind.

Each type of gathering will have special security problems, but all will have one thing in common.

We need to prevent a person or persons from using an automatic or semi-automatic weapon from causing a massacre. Perhaps it is time to revisit a serious set of restrictions on assault-style weapons. This would potentially limit access to one of the most dangerous killing tools.

DONALD HOFFMAN, BOYNTON BEACH

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There is a simple, no-cost method of preventing many of the tragic mass shootings that occur at our secondary schools with regularity. Let school counselors spend their days working as school counselors.

Currently, in most schools, school counselors are glorified clerks, performing functions far afield from their training which makes them capable of being positive forces for the well-being of students.

When allowed, counselors have a multitude of means 0f making the lives of students more fulfilling, and most importantly in this discussion, safer. For example, training students to become peer facilitators puts dozens of kids throughout the school learning about their peers. Through conversations or acquaintance, they can learn of fellow students who are troubled and share their observations with counselors or administrators.

Through the counselor, those students can then be assisted and thus prevented from being a potential danger to themselves or others. This is but one method of many that counselors have to provide compassionate care to their students.

If counselors were allowed to function for the majority of their day as counselors, these school tragedies would diminish markedly. This requires no additional funding or the unlikely passage of effective gun control.

How do I know this, 30-plus years as a school psychologist observing effective school counselors in action?

BOB ASHMORE, JUNO BEACH

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If I have to see or hear one more politician who took money from the NRA stand before grieving families and offer their thoughts and prayers, I think I'm going to scream.

I'd probably have more respect for them if they told it like it is: I'd like to do something to help but I took a truckload of money from the NRA to get elected and they'd castrate me if I went against them.

LYNN DALLMER, BOYNTON BEACH

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There is stunning hypocrisy in the very different way Republican legislators at all levels treat two basic rights guaranteed by our Constitution.

On the one hand, there is no cost too dear to ensure that gun enthusiasts enjoy unfettered right to as many weapons and bullets of whatever power and shooting rate they find fun: not 30,000 gun deaths each year, not the deaths of dozens of innocent children or concert goers, not the concern of tens of millions of Americans who see this as our biggest source of domestic terror.

On the other, there is no freedom to vote that has not been curtailed by restriction, delays, polling place closures and convoluted voting maps. In this case the concern is no longer preserving the right of the individual but instead ensuring that the nonexistent levels of voter fraud continue to be nonexistent.

DAVE SULLIVAN, PALM BEACH SHORES

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Just as this allows you to drive a car, you should be licensed by a governmental facility to get a weapon.

Furthermore, classes and tests should be required, just as for a driver's license. Gun shows and gun stores should be routinely regulated for operating properly according to law. Obtaining a firearm should have the same strictures as driving a car, getting prescription drugs, or buying a bottle or a drink.

LISA SPETT, BOCA RATON

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The rash of school shootings in America cries out for legal intervention. The foot-dragging by our federal and most state government representatives is absolutely appalling and borders on insanity.

The voting public must remember these inactions when it�s time to vote again and not be hoodwinked and bamboozled by the same people who have stood by and allowed our children to be murdered!

No question, they will attempt to change the narrative at voting time. Hopefully, your children are more valuable to you than a tax cut.

MASHAN BENBOW, WELLINGTON

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A giant black cloud hangs over the country after the terrible tragedy in South Florida. Maybe this giant black cloud should wrap itself around members of Congress and the president, and not let them see the light of day until they do something about guns, gun control and better background checks.

For everyone�s information, the NRA has consistently promoted the AR-15, which is responsible for the deaths of so many innocent people.

The conscience of the nation is tired of the mourning and grieving from gun violence. When will those brave supporters of the Second Amendment step up and ban assault rifles from ever killing a child again?

DARRYL HARRIS, LAKE WORTH

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