I am among the many who celebrate the young women and men who marched Saturday in Northampton and across the country to demand action on gun control.
I share the outrage 100 percent and take hope from their courage.
Separate from this, however, I was quite shocked that people who parked at Jeffrey Tenczar’s business vilified him for removing their vehicles form his property. It was not his responsibility to accommodate the parking needs of protesters, and the burden is always on drivers to ensure they are parking in a legal space.
The anger on the part of those who persist in damaging his business smacks of a sense of entitlement that takes away from the important work that must be made in building bridges across the political divide in the U.S. A less churlish response to this would be to pay the fine and apologize to Mr. Tenczar.
On a cause as important as this, it isn’t too much to ask that we walk from a legal parking space to where the march begins.
Sean Norton
Northampton