I am old enough to remember a time when highway deaths were so numerous and of such concern that The Tribune published beside the masthead in a box an accumulating count of Utah road deaths. Attention was paid and safety improved, enabling that practice to be long ago discontinued.
I suggest that nowadays we need something similar to address current concerns:
First, a box containing a running tally of gun deaths, which climbed to a record 40,000 last year, up more than 10,000 in under 20 years, all to satisfy the NRA and that fanatical death's head Wayne LaPierre.
A second box could track another incalculable danger: the stream of Trump lies. By day 700 of this presidency, President Trump had uttered 7,546 lies. That’s an average of more than 10 per day.
An ongoing grand total and daily average would remind us not only of what the Electoral College hath wrought contrary to the will of the people of the United States but also that the citizens of this once-great nation must step up; we must choose to be responsible when our leaders will not. We must speak out if we are to save our country.
Michele Margetts, Salt Lake City