ENTERTAINMENT
April 16, 1989
Calendar is completely ignoring area bands such as Venice, Rain Children and East-West, which write songs that deal with personal relationships and the world around us while being responsible enough to come out against senseless violence. MIKE FLETCHER Sepulveda
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 8, 1995
What we need is for [senseless violence] to be a better organized, dynamic feature of the daily news. There should be a concerted, combined effort on the part of both electronic and print media executives to bring us a running account of deaths by gunfire. Not so long ago, when our hostages were held in captivity, TV news programs opened with the number of days hostages had been imprisoned. Newspapers carried a front page box giving the same information. We were not allowed to forget the numerical impact.
ENTERTAINMENT
July 9, 1994
As a teacher and moviegoer, I feel that Times staff writer Peter Rainer missed the point of the movie "Little Big League" ("And a Little Child Shall Manage Them," June 29). Managing is really controlling adults, which is a child's ultimate fantasy. By the end of the film, Billy gains the respect of those around him, marking the realization of another fantasy of children and adults. As an educator and an aunt to young children, I could not ask for more--a film devoid of gratuitous sex and senseless violence.
NEWS
August 13, 1991
The National Organization for Women Foundation will mourn senseless violence against women at a vigil honoring 19 girls who were murdered and 71 others raped in a brutal attack by their male schoolmates last month at the St. Kizito boarding school in Kenya. Twenty-nine boys, ages 14 through 19, have been charged with manslaughter in the deaths.
OPINION
April 3, 2002
A hearty "bravo" to Kristine McKenna for her remarks on public courtesy and its often minimal display in our culture ("Any Which Way but Proper," Opinion, March 31). While one must certainly admit variety of custom from one society or one age to another, common decency and respect for other individuals should still be the norm; i.e., do to others as you would be done to. In a time in which senseless violence such as road rage and other similar manifestations is so prevalent, perhaps attention to such seemingly insignificant actions as flushing public toilets and using automobile turn signals (essentially the same action, requiring the same amount of energy)
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 11, 1991 | ANNE SEYMOUR of the National Victim Center in Ft. Worth, Tex., commented on the serial killings of 17 women, most of them prostitutes, in the Lake Elsinor area and how society tends to view such victims. She told The Times: and
Life is sacred, and when any human life is snuffed out as a result of senseless violence, we all suffer as individuals and as a nation founded on the premise of liberty and justice for all. It is all too easy to distance ourselves from the brutal murders of these innocent victims by limiting our concern, by not caring because they weren't "like us." In doing so, we wrongfully believe that such acts of random, degrading violence won't happen to us because we're not "like them."