A much bigger problem

I sympathize with all the families who have lost their children in the latest school shooting. Americans all feel the pain of losing these precious treasures. But gun control? No. Control of the laws already on the books.

Security checks to include medical problems would be a positive, too. However, do you really trust the government to protect all of us? Get real. What program have they managed to our benefit so far?

Yes, the recent shooting of young children is unforgivable and very tragic, but to those readers who have not taken time to vote or serve in our military, you really are as much to blame. How about the U.S. ambassador whom the politicians let die by inaction, the scams for your trillions of dollars with no accountability, unpaid taxes by politicians, government selling arms to Mexican drug lords, lawmakers running rampant and putting “organized crime” second in deceitful tactics, etc.. How many U.S. lives have been ruined by these actions or inactions?

Get real and hold all political officials fully accountable for their actions and clean up America before some other country takes control, like history has shown over and over again. Guns are not the problem — our legal system is. People who don’t vote or get active in community affairs need to wake up and see everything we all hold so dear. Just ask over 1 million inmates about the holiday they are on.

Our country must change to a “firm but fair” policy for every U.S. citizen. Put God back in our country and freedom to worship as we choose, as long as no ill will is in religious beliefs.

Start with true Montanans. If you moved here to run from the corruption you allowed to take over your state, enjoy Montana and what we have established as a way of life; don’t buy your way in and change Montana back into what you ran away from.

Save our children by becoming involved in day-to-day growth and not wait to react when a tragedy occurs by inaction.

Violence on TV, video games, “fashionable” magazines/role models, etc., have stolen the innocence that should be treasured. Let’s change the core of the problems that we allowed to take over our lives and be accountable for the outcomes of what society deems civilized.

Ronald Albrecht

Columbia Falls