[stevio]

A common-sense approach has obviously failed, said Ken Whitehead of the 300 block of Farmhouse Lane. He said bullets are ''whizzing through our neighborhoods.''

Go back in your fiberboard walled McMansion, turn on the Dixie Chicks and stop worrying about winged-bullets flying around your "country" neighborhood.

[Mogollon]

As hard as this is to believe, I stayed at a Homewood Suites Hotel in a suburb north of Boston and there was a pistol range behind the hotel. I would always hear gunfire late the afternoon and on weekends on days when the weather was tolerable. Being from Arizona I find the sound of gunfire soothing as long as I know it's not directed at me.