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Deer shooting sad

Sun., Nov. 12, 2017

The story of the tamed deer being shot in St. Maries (Oct. 17) was certainly a sad one. Did no one stop to reflect on the fact that here was a trained marksman with a handgun needing three shots to dispatch a deer that was, at the moment at least, threatening no one?

If an expert in this environment couldn’t manage to protect the neighborhood from a deer in fewer than three shots, what fool wants to have unvetted, untrained, inexperienced fellow fools wandering around with handguns under the guise of protection, of self or others?

Bernard Sheldon

Spokane

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