Letter: Name-calling
But in his scorn at certain Republicans being chided for merely "talking of targeting their opponents", Massie ignores the fact that they used images of gunsights, so they were certainly not "utterly divorced from any connection with guns".
One recalls the 1980s teachers' protest march here which was fronted by an appalling banner of a bullseye and target superimposed on to an image of Scottish secretary George Younger.
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John Birkett
Horseleys Park
St Andrews