While visiting friends in the US, I was lamenting the demise of various elderly family members since my last visit. When I said, "It's sad that grandpa died", an eavesdropping three-year-old piped up, "Who shot him?"
Says it all.
Leonie Sinclair, Culburra Beach, NSW
Ball tampering? A most unseamly affair.
Peter J Sullivan, Burleigh Heads, Qld
A letter-writer claims the gun lobby has too much influence over state politics (Letters 19/12). However, in NSW, the Shooters Party has elected representatives who proportionally exercise their influence. Perhaps the writer is suggesting that shooters be stripped of their democratic right to vote.
Rod Burston, Kiama Downs, NSW
The promise is that some people (but not all of us) will get up to $180 off the annual electricity bill. Sounds so generous, doesn't it? That means $45 per quarter, or $15 per month, or all of $3.45 a week. That is really going to help the household budget, isn't it?
Leigh Truelove, Waikerie, SA
Perhaps some of the negative results in the NAPLAN system are due to the acronym? Being a bit close to napalm, it's a bit of a bomb?
Judi Cox, Springfield, Qld
To this agnostic, inveighing against ideologues while deploring the publication of the arguments against human-induced climate change lets the intransigent cat out of the ideological bag (Letters, 19/12).
Helen Jackson, Higgins, ACT
People attending a church service are not an "audience" but a "congregation" ("A life lived in full bloom: fond farewell to the dame whose love will never fade", 19/12).
Anne Lindsay, Stanthorpe, Qld
If President Barack Obama is successful in having Americans hand in their assault weapons and machine-guns, Treasurer Wayne Swan should get them for our troops. It would be nice to have our defence forces armed as well as American citizens are.
Alan Hampson, Darlinghurst, NSW
It might be the even balance of noteworthiness and notoriety, but it's amazing how many names from Gough Whitlam's first ministry we still remember.
John Dorman, Toowoomba, Qld
Scientists need to come up with a soft bullet that does virtually no harm. The calibres of military weapons could be made different from those of weapons available to civilians.
Bill Cranny, Kalamunda, WA
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