NO GOOD DEALS

Almost weekly, we hear in the news another story about a "drug deal gone
bad." Usually, there is a death or serious injury associated with the
story. Many times, the victims are young teens or even police officers who
were trying to do their job. I would like to challenge our media to reword
their reporting of these stories and say simply, "during a drug deal."
Hopefully, after we begin to hear about deaths during a routine drug deal,
it finally will sink in with our children that there never has been a good
drug deal.

KARA LANE

Middlewood Court