Many thanks for Yvonne Abraham’s brilliant piece of work on the GOP baseball field shooting (“Not now, or ever,’’ Metro, June 15). The disgusting love affair that so many Americans have with their deadly weapons, buttressed by their deliberate misreading of the Constitution’s Second Amendment, has made the United States the most dangerous nation in the developed world to live in, and we’re reminded of this every single day.

Millions of words have been written about this never-ending national problem, including a few thousand by me here in southern New Hampshire. But Abraham nailed the issue forcefully, pounding the reader with unarguable examples of violence from our recent bloody history, as well as detailing the hypocrisy demonstrated by right-wing gun-loving politicians every time another tragedy occurs.

One would like to think that after being targeted on a ball field, Republicans in Congress would rethink their blind allegiance to the despicable National Rifle Association and begin casting some votes approving some of the common-sense gun law initiatives that have been put before them for years by their Democratic colleagues. But I doubt it.

William Klessens

Salem, N.H.