LETTERS: Column on reaction to church shooting helped

EDITOR’S NOTE: Over the last few days since the Charleston church shootings, we received several emails and messages from folks thanking us for our writings as well as steady words on NPR’s On Point national radio show on Thursday. Here are a couple of letters sent in by faithful readers:

To the editor:

I sit here in shock and tears, a mere 30 minutes after waking up to the horrible news about the attack on Clementa Pinckney and his church– and on civilization.  I opened your column and found the very thoughts I needed to hear, and to endorse.

From one writer to another, I know what it takes to see one’s community touched by horror, and then to sit down at a keyboard and try to pull some sense from it in the still of pre-dawn hours.  As someone else once said, “you just open a vein.” Thank you. 

– Rebecca Masters, Charlotte, N.C.

Quick response was great service to community

To the editor:

Your article moved me immensely.

You have done a great service by immediately writing this response to such an evil deed. And by expressing views that not all will support, but need to be heard by all.

I have been watching the CNN and Fox coverage here. Am very impressed with the measured and human response by the police chief and Mayor Riley, which I am sure will do much to keep community reaction calm as they search for the culprit.

I hope many read your article, take note, and take action.

– Rob Whiddon, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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