<p><strong>To the editor:</strong></p>
<p>Thank you to the Daily Journal for the thoughtful editorial titled “Enough” in the March 3 edition.</p>
<p>My only suggestion would be to alter the priorities in the piece to move mental health to the top of the list and move the gun-control issues farther down.</p>
<p>Most, if not all, of the killings listed were perpetrated by someone who many had indicated was “troubled, a loner, disturbed, threatening” and any number of other descriptors. So let’s tackle the mental health problems first … that might be a little easier to gain consensus and more quickly accomplished than some of the gun controls which always spark such heated debate.</p>
<p>Next, the Indiana red-flag law should be in every state.</p>
<p>Overhaul the system that allows reports of the above mental health problems to be reported numerous times with no action on behalf of the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies.</p>
<p>Then systematically (and with less emotion) move toward background checks, limiting bump stocks (which the president has already done) and other policies as outlined in the editorial.</p>
<p>The furor and emotion around each of the killing incidents makes logical discussions difficult at that time. It immediately becomes a shouting match with few people listening to the other side.</p>
<p>That’s why I like the Daily Journal’s more measured approach.</p>
<p><p style="text-align: right"><strong>Lyle Pettigrew</strong></p>
<p><p style="text-align: right">Greenwood</p>
