The MSP knows by asking the question of ordinary urban people, he is going to receive a “yes” to his proposal.

The big issue he is failing to address regarding the tragic killing of Glasgow toddler Andrew Morton is that Mark Bonini, the man responsible for firing the airgun, was heavily under the influence of drugs at the time.

Why, therefore, is he not launching a campaign to beat the scourge of drugs? I suggest that could be because that particular fight is one he is unlikely to win.

By banning airguns, used legitimately by thousands of people, we would risk them being driven underground to be used by the very people from which Mr Sheridan is trying to hit.

I would rather see more resources put into tackling drugs. These affect every community, drive crime rates up and leave decent people living in fear. — Carse Reader.

Sandy Smith’s “jumping on the bandwagon” comment comes from the fact this proposal comes in the run-up to the Scottish Parliament elections in May and gives the publicity Mr Sheridan craves.

The MSP’s proposal will make it more difficult for the ordinary responsible airgun user, but will do very little to affect the like of killer Mark Bonini. — Graeme Dodds.

There is a sign saying the site is intended for housing, but seven years on not a brick has been laid.

The site is attracting fly tippers and other undesirables and something needs to be done. — Fair’s Fair, Dundee.

I’ve been on the waiting list for over two years to see someone to help me with issues that happened when I was 14.

I’m now 45 and don’t take drugs.

More and more I read that the message is become a drug addict and get looked after. — Drug Free.

Where were all the finance managers and accountants, who knew about shortfalls possibly 18 months ago, when this might have been avoided?

What is going to be next to befall this city?

Heaven help us if we have to rely on the council and its cohorts to assist.

Will “out-sourcing” or job losses in the public sector and local government be next, or are they keeping that up their political sleeves until after the May elections?

If I were employed by Dundee City Council, I would be asking my unions now. Do not leave it too late and make sure you get the answers in writing.

The council is a major employer and, therefore, a major player in the economic good health of the city. — Dundee Reader.

I have never witnessed incidences of vandalism in Invergowrie and, although I have, on occasion come across teenagers in a group, I have never heard them use bad language or behave in a threatening manner.

I praise the teenagers of the village who are possibly feeling a little aggrieved by the results of this survey.

The only thing that worries me about walking through the local park at night is the fact the local authorities have never bothered to install any form of lighting.

As a pensioner, I find this far more dangerous than any village teenager. — Invergowrie Resident.

Unionists bang on about democracy, but the situation they have created is anti-democratic. — Dryburgh Reader, Dundee.

Last year he took more than 600 kids to Peter Pan on Ice.

This year he took more than 1140 kids from disabled centres throughout Tayside and wards at Ninewells Hospital.

For the last five years he has paid their tickets for the show, puts on meals and gives all the kids selection boxes.

Last year he raised £6050, and this year £8200 for Ninewells cancer and paediatrics wards.

He is our real local hero — a big man with a huge heart.

Thank you once again for helping me and my family have a memorable day at Cinderella on Ice. — M. Stewart and Family.

There are probably thousands who should have one and the late Tom Weir is such a person.

I came to Scotland in 1974 from a politically unstable country and was warmly accepted by the wonderful Scottish people.

One of my earliest memories is watching Weir’s Way from which I learned so much about the amazing history of Scotland.

Tom Weir did more to advertise Scotland and its culture than any tourist information office.

I don’t know if any plans for a memorial are in motion, but they should be. — Cris, Dundee.

[James Mason died following a heart attack on July 27, 1984, in Lausanne, Switzerland.

He was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, to John and Mabel Mason. Mason studied architecture at Peterhouse, Cambridge, but got involved in stock theatre companies in his spare time before joining the Old Vic in London under the guidance of Tyrone Guthrie and Alexander Korda, who gave Mason a small film role in 1933 but fired him a few days into shooting.

From 1935 to 1948 he starred in many British films.

A conscientious objector during the second world war (something which caused his family to break with him for many years), he became immensely popular for his brooding anti-heroes in the melodramas of the 1940s, including The Man in Grey and The Wicked Lady.

In 1949 he made his first Hollywood film, Caught, and then went on to star in many more movies and early TV shows.

His roles include the declining actor in the 1954 version of A Star Is Born, a mortally wounded terrorist in Odd Man Out (1946), Brutus in the 1953 film of Julius Caesar, General Erwin Rommel twice, once in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel in 1951, and in The Desert Rats (1953), Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), a suave masterspy in North by Northwest (1959), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth (also 1959) and Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962).

One of his last roles, that of a corrupt lawyer in The Verdict (1982), earned him his third and final Oscar nomination. He was destined never to win the gold statuette.]