Violence and guns

Re “Gunman’s careful plans went awry,” Dec. 27

I read with sadness of one Ortega family member on the phone to 911 while someone was trying to kill everyone in the house. The 911 system is a joke. Folks need to avail themselves of their 2nd Amendment rights and have a gun in the house. Had this been the case in the Ortega household, the caller might have saved lives instead of wasting time on the phone.

I hope that terrible situations like these wake people up to the fact that only they can protect themselves. The police are there only to carry away the bodies.

Robert Price

Walnut

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This latest massacre is a grim reminder of the misinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment by the gun lobbies. What we now have is a grim parody of “a well-regulated militia.”

Ruth Rosen

Santa Monica