Twisted Priorities

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To the Editor:

The following entirely believable scenario says much about America’s bizarre (and tragic) legal priorities:

A 19-year-old disturbed young man walks into a Florida big-box store.

Young man: “I’d like a bottle of OxyContin.”

Clerk: “Sorry, you need a prescription to buy OxyContin.”

Young man: “O.K., then give me a six-pack of Bud.”

Clerk: “Do you have ID? You have to be 21 to buy alcoholic beverages.”

Young man: “Well, then, I’ll take an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.”

Clerk: “Very good, sir. Will that be cash or charge?”

DAVID WINTER, ALBUQUERQUE