Reports on guns still frightening

Wed., March 14, 2018

I appreciated the point Jay Caruso makes in his opinion piece on the “18 school shootings so far in 2018” statistic (“Reports on guns were misleading,” Feb. 21). I checked out the website he mentions, Everytown for Gun Safety. He is correct: A number of the shootings listed did not involve anyone getting hurt.

However, he left out the fact that seven of them are listed as “attack on other person(s) resulting in injury or death.” Simple math gives you one each week. That is still too many. One is too many.

Susan Bates-Harbuck

Sandpoint

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