Your continuing editorial “26 Reasons to Act” is one of the most valuable, intelligent features that I have read in the New Haven Register over the 33 years that I have been in New Haven.  

While these editorials are incredibly painful to read, I have yet to see any more articulate way to make the case for keeping weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of private citizens.  

This has nothing whatsoever to do with the Second Amendment.  

The tragedy at Sandy Hook was made possible because of the kind of weapon that one person was able to own and use. Failure to restrict these weapons opens the door to more wanton slaughter at the hands of yet another deranged individual. We must do everything in our power to keep this from ever happening again.

James A. Paley

Woodbridge