Letter: Founding Fathers didn’t anticipate today’s weapons, school shootings - Gainesville Times

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Letter: Founding Fathers didn’t anticipate today’s weapons, school shootings

Crosses and flowers hang on a fence near Majority Stoneman Douglas High School, near Parkland, Fla., on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2018, in memory of the 17 people killed in a school shooting there. - photo by Associated Press

02182018 GUNS EDITORIAL — Crosses and flowers hang on a fence near Majority Stoneman Douglas High School, near Parkland, Fla., on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2018, in memory of the 17 people killed in a school shooting there. - photo by Associated Press

In my early school days, we did thinly disguised nuclear bomb drills. The threat of Russian atomic bombs stuck with me long after the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962.