Editor:
On June 6, Michael Gerson wrote the following sentence in an editorial of the Washington Post: “In a recent CBS-YouGov poll, 44 percent of Republicans agreed that mass shootings are ‘unfortunately something we have to accept’ in a free country.”
These people consider mass shootings a collateral damage of the second amendment. However, the damage is much worse than that. Mass shootings are the tip of an “iceberg.”
Last year almost 45,000 people had…