(Letter to the Editor - Graphic Illustration/MetroCreativeConnection)

Close to 400 law enforcement officers responded to the Uvalde mass shooting in Texas. (This massive response was unnecessary and indicates insufficient planning for such incidents. There is absolutely no justification or necessity for that many officers to respond.)

Now politicians, parents and the news media are all trying to figure out what mistakes each of the officers made. Actually the real cause of the massacre was the sale of one weapon of war to one sick/deranged punk. If that one weapon had not been sold, all 21 souls would still be alive.

We have to throw the Republicans out of office who have prostituted themselves to the “anti-American” NRA, eliminate the sale of AR-15 like weapons, and institute a buy back program for those already in circulation. Let’s not lose track of the problem when the solution is so apparent.

John Gainer

Parkersburg