Letter to the editor: Insensitive image

To the editor:

If your family was victimized by the horrible murders in Texas, how would you feel about the political cartoon posted in the Nov. 8 Journal-World with the picture of a machine gun and a magazine with “Thoughts and Prayers” written on it? In my opinion, this is a prime example of exploiting the victims of a horrible tragedy for political purposes.

Are there better, more compassionate ways of making the point? Perhaps we need both prayers and gun control.