Re: “Three lawmakers ask Kittery Trading Post to stop selling assault-style rifles” (July 3):

I found it very distressing that state Reps. Patty Hymanson, Lydia Blume and Deane Rykerson would resort to threats of boycotts and pickets to try to gain control of what it is the Kittery Trading Post decides to sell. This interference with legal commerce deserves to be responded to at the polls on Election Day.

I am 74 years old and I can well remember when children stopped feeling safe at school. It was when the Democrats passed their outrageous law banning guns on the school grounds. That left the honest people defenseless and put the lunatics in charge. How many dead children will it take to convince the left-wing extremists that gun control does not work? It only makes matters worse.

When I was in Cheverus High School in the 1950s and ’60s, it was common to see students bring their hunting rifles to school in November and put them in their locker every morning, and we never worried about anyone shooting up the schools. But now the liberal extremists are pushing gun control so far as to make threats to stores that sell certain types of guns.

AR-15s are used for hunting, home defense, target shooting and even in competitions in the Olympics. I hope voters will vote out the extremists and show support for Kittery Trading Post.

Thomas O’Connor

Falmouth