Letter: We’re not hill billies

PUBLICATION: The Record (Waterloo Region)
DATE: 2004.12.30
SECTION: Opinion
PAGE: A6
BYLINE: Carl Ricker

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We’re not hill billies

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As a longtime subscriber to The Record, I take offence to Frank Etherington’s Dec. 27 article in regards to MP Paul Steckle’s Christmas cards: Gun-toting MP Needs Shot Of Reality On Gun Deaths. Etherington refers to law-abiding Canadian firearms owners as hill billies. Most at rural farms and homes own one or more legal firearms. Does this make them all hill billies?

Carl Ricker
Wingham