Editor: Marilyn Weissberg’s October 17 letter discusses implications contained in my letter published the previous week. However, the implication she references existed in the original report by the Tracy Press on October 6, as my letter specifically states. My letter read, “It was reported in Thursday’s Press…”
If one is going to point out the incorrectness of implications, one ought to reference all of the facts, and include the original source of those implications rather than imply blame upon those merely re-iterating such implications and then discussing related issues.
I invite Ms. Weissberg to re-read the original report of October 6 – especially the front page which reads, “At one point, officers drew their shotguns, ready to end road-running once and for all, but that turned out to be unnecessary.” Additionally, depicted on p.3 is an emu being tracked by an officer carrying what appears to be a drawn shotgun. In her letter, Weissberg is clear about the source of that photo. Then re-read my letter published October 10.
Perhaps then the point of my letter will become clearer – that point not being the future of the birds, but rather the dangerous situation unnecessarily created by the use of shotguns in a residential neighborhood.
Daniel Wells, Tracy