Cat shooting prompts call for tighter gun laws (The Argus, Aug 29). Why is it always assumed it is the young?

When I had my own gardening business, I was asked a few times by my clients: "Have you got an air rifle?" To which I would reply: "Yes."

They would ask: "Could I borrow it to sting next door's cat?" I would ask them if they realised they would kill it at 25 yards. "No," they would say, "it will only sting it, won't it?" I would then give them a lecture on how dangerous an air gun can be in the wrong hands.

I think older people need to be taught about air guns as well because the clients I speak about were not youngsters but OAPs who did not like next door's cat.

I no longer have air guns as I prefer to shoot animals with a photographic camera these days.

-J A Rousell, Blunts Way, Horsham