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Letter: Seeking But Not Finding Insight

Thursday, January 17, 2013

To the Editor:

Regarding your article in the Life & Leisure section of the Jan. 13 Sunday Valley News, “Proper Education Is the Key,” featuring photos of four men holding semi-automatic rifles and asking them how future gun tragedies can be avoided does not seem useful to the debate. Anyone wondering about the context of “useful” has been asleep the past month.

Alex Phelps

Hartland

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John Fitzgerald, 53, of Enfield is among the participants in last summer’s Enfield Outing Club pistol and rifle fundraiser for the Wounded Warrior Project who say that proper education is the key to gun safety. (Valley News - Ryan Dorgan)

‘Proper Education Is the Key’

Sunday, January 13, 2013

On July 29, 2012, the Valley News covered a pistol and rifle event at the Enfield Outing Club, held to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project. The portraits on this page were not published with the original story. However, in light of the recent mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., and the theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., (which occurred just …