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Letters to the editor for May 21

May 21, 2026

San Diego shooting

Only in America. Another daisy chain of children led to safety after gunfire erupts. Another community targeted – a house of worship with a school. Another security guard and others killed trying to save lives. More families ripped apart; lives changed forever because of teens who had access to firearms.

In the days that follow, there will undoubtedly be calls by some for more armed guards in places that should be safe. More armed guards tasked with protecting the rest of us, sacrificing their lives because some refuse to address easy access to firearms. The shooters, with the element of surprise, can shoot a few people before someone can respond. Those first victims are sacrificed in our gun-obsessed society.

More firearms in more places are not the answer. Policy solutions, culture change, education, legislation, and better regulation of the firearm industry can make us all safer.

— Loren Lieb, Northridge

Anti-weaponization fund is absurd

The nearly $1.8 billion federal “Anti-Weaponization Fund” was created as a so-called settlement for the president’s frivolous $10 billion frivolous lawsuit against the IRS. To give our tax money to people who are responsible for trying to overthrow our government with violence, killing and maiming police officers, desecrating our Capitol building, putting the lives of congressional members and their staff in jeopardy, and threatening to hang the vice president, is unacceptable.

— Susan Bernard, West Hills

I wish Mahan didn’t support bullet train

Re “Governor debate was thankfully the last,” May 17:

I was amused by Larry Wilson’s recount of the six leading governor candidate debaters who tried to knock each other off in the last debate. The Democrats with one exception offered no new approaches to solving California’s deficit spending fiascos. I like Larry’s choice, Matt Mahan, who not only achieved measurable success in San Jose, but who seems to have a reasonable approach to addressing important issues. Mahan is dead right that the bullet train project is a disastrous example of government inefficiency. Unfortunately, he supports reorganizing it, instead of just cancelling it. Reversing that position would cinch my choice for governor.

— Oliver Watson, Orange

Orange County Register

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Letters to the editor for May 21

San Diego shooting

Anti-weaponization fund is absurd

I wish Mahan didn’t support bullet train

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