No tuna bake, no aprons, no guns Ed Rosemann cavils with my position that JROTC in San Diego public high schools should move all riflery programs (and guns) off-campus ASAP (Letter to the editor, “Just the facts, ma’am,” Village News, April 23, page 6).  Could it be that he is gearing up as part of a well-known organized pro-gun lobby to urge the school board to make permanent its waffle on guns and just leave JROTC riflery at school sites after all? The wishy-washy school board majority earlier said no to guns, then backtracked to say that guns are OK until the kids have a chance to participate in interscholastic riflery competitions this spring. Now it’s spring and Mr. Rosemann materializes, touting “firearms marksmanship” as an Olympic sport, less dangerous than football and with a safe school record. All this, weeks after my letter and within one week of the ten-year anniversary of the Columbine High School tragedy. Contrary to Mr. Rosemann’s assertion, my statement stands: JROTC’s sponsors (the local military establishment) should arrange for marksmanship training to occur at more secure venues than San Diego public high school facilities. Guns of any kind and for any purpose do not belong on high school campuses. Period. To pretend that guns are analogous to knives in cooking class or needles in sewing class is disingenuous, and besides, I don’t think home economics classes are offered anymore. No more tuna bake, no more aprons, no more guns. Frances O’Neill Zimmerman, La Jolla Offshore fish farming is a bad idea Offshore fish farming is a bad idea (“Researchers propose offshore fish farm,” Village News, April 23, page 3)!    Why do we continue to accept and promote practices that have proven damaging to the environment?? I highly recommend Jean-Michel Cousteau’s extraordinary documentary, which was aired on KPBS 4/22/09, “Ocean Adventures Voyage to Kure: Call of the Killer Whale,” which clearly documents that offshore fish farms pollute and endanger sea life. They need to be located inland. We cannot say we did not know! We must challenge all powerful institutions that support questionable practices in the name of “progress.” They do so in spite of scientific evidence that their proposals only serve private interests and ignore the greater danger to humans, other species and the planet.  Do we really want to support the SeaWorld Research Institute project on behalf of greater profits for the seafood industry? Technology gone amok is one of our greatest enemies. Our silence is complicity! Tanja Winter, La Jolla