Answers to John Brenan’s June 7 questions (“Rot introduced as result of elections”):

What would you say if your neighbor dumped all their garbage in your yard? Would you be upset?

If an AR-15 is needed for hunting, and multiple shots tear apart the target, that implies sport hunting, since one wouldn’t necessarily eat bullet-riddled flesh.

Wayne Spletstoser wrote, “We need to give our kids a chance” (“As I See It,” June 9).

Over the past couple weeks, we have seen two letters to the editor fallaciously associating the Oregon Republican Party (750,000 members) with the recent, horrible shooting tragedy in Buffalo, in particular, “Buffalo is a result of GOP bigotry” (Michael Coolen, May 29) and “Replacement theory Republican mainstay” (Robert B. Harris, May 25).

The Creator God, in Biblical scripture, is clear that life actually starts before conception (Psalm 139:13-16, Jeremiah 1:4-5, Isaiah 44:24 and others), and that there are those born/conceived not by the will of the flesh nor of men but by God’s will (John 1:13), and that He has good deeds for each to do when and where they are born (Ephesians 2:10).

I own guns. I have competed with other gun owners in speed and accuracy games. Capacity and speed rule; the size of the bullet doesn’t matter so much.

I am not a constitutional scholar, but neither are many people who quote the U.S. Constitution to support a personal socio-political position.

I gave my three rifles to be melted down.

It’s my opinion the regime in office today is a complete failure at communication.