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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: No good reason to be advertising guns for sale

What is this push in the advertising in your newspaper for guns, asks letter writer
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Letters to the editor should be no longer than 250 words and will be edited. Include your address (it won’t be published). E-mail editor@nanaimobulletin.com.

To the editor,

What is this push in the advertising in your newspaper for guns? There is only one purpose for a gun: to kill.

I am not naive, a bleeding heart or a starry-eyed person. I grew up in a log cabin in the Cariboo. My father was a registered, responsible big-game guide. We ate wild meat. I was very familiar with guns and surrounded by them. I was taught one thing, that guns are for killing.

Pellet guns and the like maim and hurt when they hit. I know. Bows and arrows? Unnecessary.

Stop advertising such dangerous items.

M. Armstrong, Nanaimo


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