LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Shootings are a sad comment


February 11, 2010 · Updated 8:41 AM 

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To the editor:

Let’s hope that the nitwits who exercised their Second Amendment rights at the expense of two red-tailed hawks’ lives (“Red-tailed hawks shot on Whidbey,” Feb. 6) manage to find some more benign means of amusement.

What a sad story, and what a sad comment on America’s gun culture.

Kirk Francis

Langley

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