Letter: Deal with our multitude of tragedies
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Could the media please give us a break with endless grisly accounts of the Aurora, Colo., killings? I understand it was a tragedy, and our sympathies lie with the 70 innocent victims. But, we also need to appreciate that 86 Americans are killed by firearms every day, and nearly 4,000 are killed prematurely by chronic diseases linked with consumption of animal products and lack of exercise (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_04.pdf).
So, let's replace the vacuous hand-wringing over the Aurora tragedy with constructive personal steps to lessen the greater tragedies facing us every day.
Robert Abby
Vancouver
