Editor: I had just bought a candy bar and was walking down the aisle to see if anything else might catch my eye. I saw a man unpacking toy revolvers.

I said to him 鈥淒oesn鈥檛 it bother you to display children鈥檚 guns? Politicians should have outlawed them.鈥�

His reply was 鈥淚t鈥檚 just part of my job.鈥�

I said 鈥淕uns could teach children to become criminals. Also, police might mistake them, for the real thing.鈥�

He told me that he had just returned from Afghanistan and had left the army.

鈥淲e never should have gone there. Most of  the soldiers would have agreed with me. It seems the politicians never listen. They are all the same. You cannot trust them. I couldn鈥檛 be bothered voting.鈥�

I replied 鈥淛ack Layton, NDP leader, said excctly the same thing many times 鈥� that we have no right being there.鈥�

Then he said 鈥淭his time, I think I will vote.鈥�

He requested not to be identified, or have the store named, for fear of repercussions.

Leonard W. Friesen,

Surrey