MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • May 3, 2020
Rarely have I seen an op-ed or letter more lacking in logic than the op-ed from David Trahan regarding gun shops being open as essential businesses. He wrote that there has been a policy to push rural people into population centers. I have lived in Maine for 33 years and have not witnessed such a policy, although it would be a good policy for reducing driving and for slowing climate change. He states that people are being pushed into big-box stores to buy their guns there. What he never gets around to saying is why it is essential that people need to be able to buy guns or ammunition anywhere during a pandemic. Have there been home invasions seeking toilet paper? Are flowered face masks frightening people? ~ Dewey Meteer, Nobleboro