Sea Gulls Deserve Equal Protection

I haven’t written a letter to you regarding the abortion issue. Reagan and Bush have their agenda, and I’ll let it go at that. But for heaven’s sake, how restrictive are we to become? According to the article “Environmental Group Cites Landfill’s AIDS Threat” (June 11), people now are faulting even the use of used condoms by the sea gulls.

I feel it is a pretty sad state of affairs that the gulls have to resort to the use of used condoms in the first place, but is anybody addressing that concern? Apparently not. Should not the gulls be entitled to the same rights that the rest of us have come to expect?

Let me suggest a compromise that I feel would be fair to both sides in this matter. Rather than forcing the gulls to resort to the use of used condoms, the neighborhood surrounding the proposed dump could simply put out new condoms, thereby affording both the gulls and the neighborhood protection.

Voila, problem solved! Why is it that the simple approach to a problem just seems to escape some people?

KEN GRIFFIS, Camarillo