To the Editor:The Bee staff for your response to the massacre in Orlando.

Thank you to

In particular, I am grateful for John Voket's article on the LGBT community from Newtown, the editorial entitled, "The Answer to America's Gun Health Crisis," and Snapshots profile of Ayesha Ali.

They remind us that our community is more diverse then it appears, and that we aren't helpless. It was a positive response to another horrible tragedy.

Jan Lee Brookes

28 Hundred Acres Road, Newtown                    June 21, 2016