Letters To The Editor

Letter: An open letter to our state and national representatives

Dear Editor:

As a teenager, I qualified as an Expert Rifleman in the National Rifle Association. I was proud of that achievement. The NRA at the time was dedicated to education in firearm safety.

The NRA still supports firearm safety education programs, but new technologies and mass production (more than 300 million firearms in the United States) have outpaced its safety programs. As is evident from the recent spate of school shootings (three mass shootings…