Letters: An outrage in an Oklahoma town

Re “3 Oklahoma teens charged in slaying of Australian man,” Aug. 21, and “Oklahoma slaying stirs speculation,” Aug. 22

The news of the horrifying killing of college baseball player Christopher Lane shows just how far we have fallen as a “post-racial” society. Where is the outrage from the race-baiters?

I am the father of a future college baseball catcher, by the way, just like Lane. The faux moral outrage of the left over Trayvon Martin is exactly that — faux outrage. Where is the outrage over this senseless, heinous act?

Marc Kerner
Northridge

We are all susceptible to doing something stupid and regrettable. Those “bored” kids were too young or too dumb to understand the consequences of their action. How different the results when someone does lose his or her senses if there is not a gun at hand.

Bert Eifer
Woodland Hills

I don’t know if the accused teenagers are guilty, but authorities say one of them has admitted he did it because he was “bored.”

Perhaps racism is at work here? Yes, perhaps, and your article drills down on this, although the crime certainly has nothing to do with gun control.

Jerry McBrearty
Pacific Palisades

It tore my heart to read of the vicious killing of Lane while he was jogging. How could a human being be so heartless as to take the life of a person he never knew? To snuff out a life that had all the potential of being the best is senseless.

The depravity of these three youths calls for a strong act of condemnation from our president. To do less would be an insult to the million Australian men and women who served in World War II so that these youths could be free.

I apologize to his parents and the Australian people for what happened .

How cruel of the National Rifle Assn. to block meaningful legislation that might have prevented this random act of violence.

Thomas J. Bragen
Bayonne, N.J.
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