Our readers living around the world reacted to a pair of deadly mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, this weekend with a sense of despair, expressing frustration at the senseless violence they see happening again and again in the United States.

“Another day, another mass shooting, par for the course,” a reader in New Zealand wrote. She was among the thousands of readers who left comments on The Times’s news and opinion coverage of the shootings, which killed dozens of people and wounded dozens more in less than 24 hours.

Some with pending visits to the United States said they were considering staying home. And others told Americans they’d do better to move to a safer country.

Below is a selection of reader comments, which have been lightly edited.