We Must Stop Senseless Violence Letter Of The Week: From April 25

Re: The April 16 article, “Detective says he saw no remorse in Loukaitis.”

I am a high school freshman and I recently read the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel. I am amazed at the similarities between today’s murders and those carried out by the Nazi Party in Germany just over 50 years ago.

Today’s killers are strikingly similar in many ways to those in Germany during World War II. Killers today show no remorse. Similarly, the SS men and even many ordinary German citizens were without remorse.

Just as Barry Loukaitis remained calm, showed no facial expression and seemingly killed without any thought of the victims, Germany’s SS men killed thousands of Jews every day. When the war ended and the camps were liberated, they denied any wrongdoing.

Many killers today also kill for no logical reason, as did the SS, or kill for something that surely doesn’t merit revenge as severe as death.

There are many examples of senseless violence directed toward innocent people plaguing the media today. As seen in the Loukaitis case, teasing provoked a murder. In many cases, the killing happened without provocation. In concentration camps, innocent people also were killed for reasons that most definitely do not justify killing.

Brutal, senseless, unprovoked violence is becoming a real problem today. Is our country becoming Nazi Germany? No, but if this violence isn’t curbed the situation could get much worse.

Action should be taken to stop this violence. History does repeat itself.

Parker Barrile

Chattaroy

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