Thank you for your efforts Larry and that of your fellow Quakers. It may not make any diifference, but at least it is a breath of sanity.

I have a couple of questions,

1 Why is it that anyone (myself included) that suggests addressing causes rather than symptoms feel the necessity to make explicit their horror at the slaughter in New York? Can this not be taken as read in view of our common humanity?

2., but those who a advocate military response, onstrufe ,