This is a local paper. I leave it to some Freeper from the Chicago area to 'correct' the editors at their home-town paper. If they start getting stuff from around the country they just discount it as spam from gun nuts. If its a mater of fact rebuttal from a local, they will need to pay more attention. That's the people that matter in their circulation.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke
The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.