The Dec. 21 issue of The Bulletin had an editorial cartoon showing an assault rifle with five magazines below it. One magazine was labeled “mental health issues,” a second was “easy access,” a third was “video games,” a fourth was “on-line ammo” and the fifth was “gun shows.”

These relate to the sectors that we have to investigate and control to lessen the future chance of another school shooting disaster. Having been to several gun shows in the past, I can vouch for the ease to obtain any gun I wanted from individual sellers without a background check. However, the cartoon has missed a sixth sector, and that is the ease to buy a gun through the Classified section in The Bulletin and several weekly papers in the area.

Just call the seller, get a description of the gun, make an offer and go pick it up. If the seller is smart, he will check your driver’s license and get your signature on a sales slip with the gun description and number. But that happens less than it should.

Gary Will

La Pine