Tragedy repeats with too-easy access to guns.

Iheard on the radio that the shooter in Wednesday’s Annunciation Catholic School shooting had purchased the firearms used in that attack “legally and recently” ( “Thoughts and prayers are not nearly enough,” Aug. 28).

No surprise there. Once again, a troubled mind hatched a diabolical plan, and America’s largely unrestricted gun policy allowed the perpetrator to easily buy the tools that were used to kill two children and wound 17 others.

Just days before that, I signed an online petition linked to a YouTube video by a Sandy Hook parent who lost a child in that horrific 2012 massacre. Signing that petition urging Congress to pass stricter and more sensible gun laws was the least I could do. But how many others saw the same video and didn’t bother to add their name to the growing list o