Buoyed by a wave of small-government enthusiasm after a march on Washington earlier this year, the region’s tea party movement is sweeping up new acolytes even as controversy swirls around a group deeper South, area organizers said.

In a June 11 column (“Guns, fear being stockpiled”), Nelson Graves asked to be enlightened concerning some issues that appear to be disturbing for him.

It is with the purpose of enlightening him that I now write, and while I do not have room to respond to all of his concerns, I intend to address the points where he needs enlightenment the most.

Debate over proper firearms legislation continues unabated