Teens and Violence

* Re “Life Is Precious--or It’s Not,” by Barbara Kingsolver, Commentary, May 2:

At last! After hundreds of pages of newsprint and thousands of hours of radio and television blowhards, comes concise and eloquent truth about where responsibility for “teen violence” lies. As Kingsolver so precisely points out, teen violence only mimics the vastly more insidious and pervasive destruction our country metes out to others in so many different forms, be it actual bombs or the often more destructive sanctions that murder so many in Iraq and other places away from the headlines. We all need to read and reread what she has to say until it sinks in and sets us to action.

BRUCE TERRENCE

Valley Glen