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I was shocked to see you assert that the Las Vegas attack is the “deadliest mass shooting in modern US history” (‘We’ll be talking about gun laws’ – Trump, 4 October). That was in 1890, when up to 300 people, many of them women and children, were massacred at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Do the deaths of indigenous Americans not count?
Kate Evans
Street, Somerset
• Something always seems to be missing in your analyses of the effects of alcohol (Dr Dillner’s dilemma, G2, 2 October). Alcohol is a social drug. When I go to the pub, I mix with friends. We chat and converse. We joke and laugh. Surely, as a single man, this is better for me than sitting alone, goggling at the TV every night.
David Rainbird
Wallasey, Wirral