To the editor:

Some things are hard to understand. First is about the school shooting in Florida that killed 17 students and teachers. It says at least seven or eight people, including students, one deputy and the sheriff and even the FBI, felt Niklas Cruz needed to be forcibly committed for things he had said and done. Even his mother had called about him.

No one done anything. That is the reason all those people are dead or wounded. Knowing what they all knew why did anyone hesitate to do what they knew should be done?

Now even stranger is how no one wants to do anything about all the people dying in accidents on the highways while illegally using cell phones. That could be stopped like dropping a brick. I mean in a matter of minutes that could be stopped. Probably more kids under the age of 12 years have died or are crippled, many for life, since the shooting. People seem just brush that aside with very little thought, I guess because “assault” guns were not involved. I just feel like a dead kid is a dead kid. I guess liberals do not feel that way. It sure seems that way.

If people were to protest against illegal cell phone use like they are doing about the Florida school shooting folks would be afraid to use a cell phone while driving.

I just wonder how many thousands of kids have to die before people even take notice. They haven’t so far.

Seems to me the protest is about guns and not about dead kids. Guns and gun owners are also victims in situations like the school shootings.

Robert Hollowell

Vicksburg