The synagogue rampage in Pittsburgh that killed 11 innocent victims reminds us that the concentration camps and Holocaust of the Second World War are still humanly possible (“Suspect said he ‘wanted all Jews to die’,” Star-Advertiser, Oct. 29).

Rather than live as brothers and sisters, we continue to be each other’s enemies, willing to demean and destroy each other’s lives.

The answer is not placing armed guards at our places of worship, or even at our schools, but rather, to lift, teach and practice America’s founding vision of equality, justice and dignity of all people.

Bold moral teachings and initiatives in non-violence, born out of shared experiences in suffering and pain, are needed; not more guns, born out of shared yearnings for power and pleasure.

Wally Fukunaga

Makiki

Click here to read more Letters to the Editor.