School Shooting prompts call for ‘real solutions’

To the editor,

When I got in the car this morning, the first thing I heard on the radio was news of a mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. 2 dead, 17 wounded, hundreds traumatized. The image of kindergartners shepherded to safety by their teacher especially hurt me as a retired educator. There was a time I felt we could tell children that school was a safe place. That’s so clearly untrue.
In the face of brutal violence and murders like this, it’s especially galling that Trump is sending national forces into cities whose crime rate has fallen to the lowest level in 30 years. Instead of inventing reasons to invade our cities with troops, perhaps our President could focus on actual solutions to this crippling issue that plays itself out every week in our country.
I wish fervently that Trump were more concerned about the actual wellbeing of children and all citizens rather than creating theatrics to attempt to boost low polling numbers.

Shannon Perry, Hood River