I usually can barely bring myself to read the letters to the editor. For the past year or so they’ve become so trivial and mind-numbing that reading them really starts to piss me off.
On a totally unrelated topic, Christine Haeussling’s letter, (Sept. 20 “Shoot for free? Really?”), claims that shooting range advertisements shouldn’t be in our newspaper because of “the school shooting trend in the last few years.” Are you kidding me? Really? I don’t think school shooters spend their afternoons at the shooting range shooting paper targets of students (add drawings of cell phones and/or iPods to them) just because they could shoot at them for free. On top of that, a number of universities have pistol teams and student-organized pistol/rifle/shotgun clubs. Rifle shooting is even part of the NCAA! Google it.
I don’t care if you don’t want to be informed about the local shooting range. I hate all these ads for sushi but I don’t go writing letters and making the rest of the student body listen to me. My message to you: Ignore the ad and stop complaining.
Mark Roberts
Earth sciences senior