The horror of the shooting of children at a Minneapolis Catholic school this week reminds us of a long list of tragedies that have become far too prevalent in current-day America.

Finding solutions to mass shootings of the gun culture and violence in our nation is not easy. Efforts nationally and statewide have continuously been short circuited.

Similarly, the recent tragedy in our Seacoast reminds us of the danger of the too often ready availability of guns. In the aftermath of the sadness of the L ong Family of Madbury , a reader from Stratham read my recent column about "Schindler's List" and asked that I write about gun buyback programs.

She said, "I was moved by your quoting of Oskar Schindler’s ring to ask this of you." (I had written that the gold ring given to Schindler by

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