Dear Ron: After the 2 black guys that got shot earlier this week we woke up to the terrible news this morning re the Dallas shootings. I really can't see an end to it until they change the law about carrying concealed weapons around, which of course they won't. I was also quite shocked to read a report that 2015 saw a 21 per cent rise in gonorrhea cases among gay men. Gay men also saw a 19 per cent increase in syphilis. The report said: "High levels of condomless sex probably account for most of this rise." Gay (young?) men really need to start taking responsibility or we will be facing a problem which could be worse than the last Aids epidemic. -J

Dear J: Thanks for the good letter, but sadly you put your finger on two points that we seem helpless to correct. The US Gun lobby has Congress by the balls or pocketbook. Already they have paid 37 million dollars into congressmen's bank account. Our congress has sunken to a sad, self serving, and non functioning level.

And stopping young people, gay or straight, from having sex is equally impossible. Heated desire has them by the balls. People never seem to learn from history; they just keep on repeating it.

Another serious but less publicized sex problem is STD. I have a straight neighbor who has it, and it has ruined his hunting for women. I think one of his women conquests posted on a straight date site that he was infected. Men may not be able to keep it in their pants, but women sure won't drop their pants when danger is involved.