The gun-toters start young.

I'm leery of 10- and 11-year-old kids wandering through my yard with pellet guns. Shooting at birds. I'd like to kick their asses. If not the asses of their parents. Maybe that makes me a grouchy old man. Now, I have found another reason to be grouchy. I washed my windows for the first time in the long time, and I've discovered two of my windows have been damaged by their mis-fired pellets. I'm sure it wasn't intentional. They just missed the birds, and the pellets hit the windows instead. The parents have agreed to pay for the damages. But I wish they'd take away the air pistols and rifles. But it won't happen. Because we live in a gun-toting society. --Jim Broede