Letter: Restrict Assault Weapons

The recent shooting at the high school in Georgia made me again fear for my grandsons’ safety. So, thank you to Katie Woodall, a mass shooting survivor, for her excellent piece calling for voters to elect politicians who favor gun restrictions..

I am encouraged when I read that the 14-year-old shooter’s father is also being charged. But it is only mildly comforting to see justice carried out AFTER a killing takes place. The boy in Georgia used–you guessed it–an AR- Platform Style assault rifle. Trauma surgeons, ballistics experts and medical examiners will attest to the unspeakable damage done to the human body by this weapon. The mass killer that Woodall experienced in Las Vegas in 2017 had 14 AR-15 semiautomatic rifles and eight similar guns called AR-10s. Yet little has been done by craven politicians to restrict their production or availability.

Peter Bourque

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