LETTER: Good enough to retype

I would like to compliment Mr. Roger Argo, of Dalton Gardens, for his letter to the editor Jan. 23. Mr. Argo’s letter had two redeeming features: 1. It was short, and 2. It was an original thought. Even though his logic — to compare automobiles to assault weapons was a bit moronic — he should get an “attaboy” for attempting satire.

But, Roger, Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to compare assault rifles to tanks, armored vehicles or Chevys that can shoot a hundred bullets at pedestrians in only 34 seconds? Or maybe assault rifles to those little jeeps driving around with machine guns mounted on the back in North Africa.

Mr. Argo’s letter to the editor wasn’t, like many letters, a combination of cliche lines off talk radio with downloaded, make-believe quotes from the Internet. Hopefully, Roger typed his thoughts on an old Smith Corona typewriter, paid 46 cents to help the U.S. Postal Service, and was deemed “good enough” to be retyped into publication — unlike the many lengthy, meaningless expressions of Internet dribble that find their way via the slippery downhill slide, by email, into the waste basket of the publication world: A letter to the editor.

HARLEY DUFF

Coeur d’Alene