Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting.

Letters to the Editor

Guns: Why did Florida airport killer have them?

Another mass murder with firearms, this time at the Fort Lauderdale airport. Just another day in America.

And in the increasingly cursory and routine media coverage these types of atrocities receive, few in the media and few among the public servants we elect ask why the alleged killer with his reported criminal history and history of mental illness had firearms.

Shame on them. Shame on us all.

This story was originally published January 10, 2017 at 9:44 AM with the headline "Guns: Why did Florida airport killer have them?."

Get unlimited digital access
#ReadLocal

Try 1 month for $1

CLAIM OFFER