BookRix

New Brunswick, NJ

Contrary to some of your detractors I thought this column was one of your
better commentaries. We are born to a great privilege and we need to remember
that fact. Those young people were proposing changes that over 90% of the
country, Including gun owners like me, favor but the mere fact they opposed
the gun makers lobby, the NRA, makes them anathema to many who call themselves
conservative. While I will defend to the death their right to speak I do wish
some of these so called conservatives would quit calling themselves
conservative and find some other label. I suggest ""No Nothings"" or ""Angry
old White Men"" Their days of power are nearing an end and one can only hope
the coming generations will do better.

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St Louis, MO

This is a beautiful written and (obviously) extremely well researched article.
It is also very tragic.

I lived in NYC almost 30 years. In that amount of time, it is hard not to
become oblivious to thousands of people. Please know I in no way mean to take
anything away from this woman's story. That noted, there are so many people
and each of them have their own story. Usually, drugs and/or alcohol are
involved, which is maybe the most difficult part for people to understand
about Ms. Williams.

I have known people who stay in the same spot (or have several spots) for
years. who were schizophrenic, go off their meds and end up in a circuitous
route between the hospital and the street. Many are/were highly functioning;
they either were either in denial or in the throes of their disease.

I mentioned addicts; specifically opiate addicts, which I have been in
recovery from for over 30 years (with a few mistakes) who are now the fastest
growing and highest cause of death for people under 50 years old.

So many people have one thing in common: One way or another, falling through
the cracks in the ""system"" (a word I hesitate to use); a truly broken
system, at that.

I assume the reason this article which most find hard to accept is ""how can a
young woman who is so beautiful, so talented, highly intelligent and motivated
refuse any real help?"" I posit the answer is a tragic, but simple one: it is
the nature of the disease; also, the nature of several other diseases.

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darn..does it end like that?

plz write more plz