Letters to the Editor: NRA should be outlawed; Burbank’s train crossings must be better marked

Yet another mass shooting, this one in Parkland, Fla. Will these shootings ever end?

It is time Americans face the truth: The National Rifle Assn. is the real problem. It is a domestic terrorist organization, and any member of the United States Congress who accepts money from or supports the NRA has been radicalized by this group. We wouldn’t tolerate an ISIS recruiting organization operating on U.S. soil. Why then are we allowing the NRA to exist? This group should be considered subversive and outlawed. It needs to be dismantled and the 2nd Amendment (considered by many gun enthusiasts sacrosanct) repealed.

There have been more than enough “thoughts and prayers” and empty dialogue on the gun issue; elected officials must act now or expect the country to spiral further downward as gun-related murders slaughter more of us while the NRA continues to hold the rest of us hostage.

As Walt Kelly’s “Pogo” lamented, “We has met the enemy and it is us.”

Molly Shore

Burbank

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Re: “No injuries in early morning train collision with car, police say,” Feb. 24. I was thankful to read that the woman escaped from her car before a freight train hit her car in Burbank early in the morning on Feb. 21. I , too, had the frightening experience of finding myself on the train tracks when I turned left from Buena Vista Street onto Vanowen Street in broad daylight. I can only imagine how easy it could happen in the dark. Ever since modifications were made to that intersection in recent times the markings have been very limited and confusing. Somebody please paint the curbs and lanes in bright fluorescent colors before someone dies by train or crashing into the median dead center of the intersection. It’s just a matter of time.

Helene Cob

Burbank