To the editor:

In response to the May 10 letter titled “Burning issue,” written by William Skepnek:

How is it that a deer can “terrorize”? Now I must be afraid, trembling in my boots, because of terrorist deer? I find it hard to believe that a deer has any mental capacity for premeditated senseless destruction, or “suicide missions.” Did it have little deer bombs strapped to its legs?

What sort of “terrorist activity” are we to prevent by regulating the behavior of wild deer? The destruction of the bridal shop was most likely due to the deer, an animal used to being in wide open spaces, confined to a smaller space with a roof, a place where distances are strange to its perception. No doubt the deer was afraid. I foresee no positive effect on our community by taking actions to control deer.

The citizens of Lawrence should definitely pay more attention to the language we all seem to have agreed on.

I would write more, but I need to spray my garden; terrorist insects are annihilating it as I type.

Hagen S. Miller,

Lawrence