There is a domestic terrorist group that operates not only with impunity, but with government cooperation. For many decades, they have used money and power to ensure that violent incidents will result in many instant deaths, rather than a few. They have been great benefactors to criminal gangs and hate groups, furnishing them with machine guns and even more lethal assault weapons. They have caused our children to live in an atmosphere of fear in our schools.
Hunters may need rifles and ordinary citizens may need a handgun for protection, but anybody that covets assault weapons most likely has criminal intentions or is paranoid. As for a few so-called “collectors,” pandering to their whims by the NRA at the expense of people’s lives, is stupid, to say the least.
Of all the evils that afflict our society, the unconscionable availability of assault weapons is the most curable. If only enough congressmen could vote their consciences and ban sale or possession of these weapons to any but the military and law enforcement, many lives could be saved.
Trudy Eber
Hamden