Dan Rodricks' column "Americans should feel rightfully despondent today" (July 8) was spot on as usual.
However, I would like to suggest the following: For "despondent" he should have written "despairing."
He says that "guns have presented us with today's national nightmare. Guns give hatred its full, bloody force. Guns make the unspeakable real." When he woke up that morning and read the news from Dallas, he "felt like the country had tipped toward anarchy."
I agree. Those who want to "make America great again" are actually doing their damnedest to destroy it.
After the Sandy Hook shooting of 20 little children and their teachers, nothing was done except a lot of hang-wringing and offerings of sanctimonious statements. That's when this country tipped from neurosis about guns into full-blown psychosis.
This country is psychologically sick and I don't know how or if it can cure itself.
Nancy Spies, Jarrettsville