Teen Deaths and Gang Violence
The callous reaction of some students from Paramount High School to the shooting death of popular cheerleader Sheila Lorta, who was felled by stray bullets from warring gangs, is a very sad commentary on the value these young kids place on human life (“Gangs Send a School Back Into Mourning,” Oct. 1). Have our young people become so blase that such killings no longer bother them?
It just doesn’t seem right that these gangbangers should continue to go on their merry ways, blithely shooting at each other and not caring who else gets killed in the process. Is there anything our law enforcement officers can do to stop these rampant killings, which are claiming the lives of innocent victims?
DELIA M. INTIA, Los Angeles
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