COLUMN: Hit center of target

Almost every Christmas season the letter “Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” is printed in newspapers around the country. It is a nice addition to Christmas lore. I suggest the column My Turn “Gun-crazy Society Must Change” by Kathleen Peterson in the Coeur d’Alene Press on Dec. 21 be printed not yearly but at least weekly until real and effective gun control legislation is passed in this country. My father was a 65-year Idahoan and an avid hunter almost all of his life. He was an NRA member for many years. He is certainly turning over in his grave about the NRA policies and the fact that our national legislators are hog-tied by the NRA. I am sure he has long ago torn up his NRA membership card. He died in 1991 at age 85 and I write this letter for him.

DAVID WILLIAMS

Coeur d’Alene