To the editor: This is an open letter to gun owners in my community. I am confident that we are all alike in this way: We all feel great shock and sadness about the people who were recently killed and seriously injured in the Las Vegas shooting. We are different in this way: I do not own any guns. I don’t believe that this difference needs to divide us the way it has often done.

Find common ground To the editor: The past few decades have seen a widening partisan divide, infecting public discourse at all levels. The escalating partisan rancor has risen to a level that undermines our democracy.

To the editor: Too many citizens find themselves offended by not only religion, but also the expression of viewpoints regarding religion.