To the editor:

Was it just one of those strange coincidences that fill the pages of history? On the same day (Monday) that the Journal-World leads with a headline “Community Building houses firing range,” which described how easy it is to buy and license a handgun in Kansas, PBS ran a special on all the various conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy (“Oswald’s Ghost”).

It doesn’t take a prophet to predict that as this political season becomes ever more fraught with rhetoric, some loon, longing for his/her 15 minutes of fame and thanks to a system where buying a handgun is practically unrestricted, will decide to cast his/her ballot as a bullet.

Ray Finch,

Lawrence