The Editor,

Re. Cabela’s flyer (delivered with some June 21 copies of The Tri-City News).

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The good old cliché “shocked and appalled” comes to mind but doesn’t do justice to what I feel about this flyer. Perhaps “angry and horrified” comes closer. No, still not strong enough.

The subject of my ire? Virtually the whole back page of the flyer was devoted to guns. Not just any old guns, not only your classic shotguns and hunting rifles, which were there. But so, also, were a wide range of semi-automatic rifles, including one that looked too much like an assault rifle for comfort, and also two very lethal looking handguns. Not your actual hunting weapons.

I’m disgusted that The Tri-City News would deliver this flyer. Is revenue so tight that we now have to be faced with a “Canada Day Sale” of potential murder weapons?

This is Canada, not some back-country pocket of ignorance south of the border. In case you haven’t noticed, we do not have the right to bear arms in Canada and, more to the point, most of us absolutely reject the lethal gun culture that has resulted from that absurd premise.

Canadian hunters and target shooters already know where to get their licences and their guns. The rest of us do not need to see this.

Please, find another source of revenue. Please do not accept ads from that company again.

Patricia Dewhirst, Coquitlam