Letter: Military grade weapons shouldn't be available to civilians — ever
(Rick Bowmer | The Associated Press) Clark Aposhian, chairman of the Utah Shooting Sports Council, attaches a little-known device called a "bump stock" to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, in South Jordan, Utah. Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock bought 33 guns within the last year, but that didn't raise any red flags. Neither did the mountains of ammunition he was stockpiling, or the bump stocks found in his hotel room that allow semi-automatic rifles to mimic fully automatic weapons.
By Micki Moulton | The Public Forum
| Dec. 1, 2017, 2:26 p.m.
| Updated: 2:27 p.m.
Can someone please explain to me why any civilian in America needs an assault rifle? Military grade weapons should not be available to civilians, ever.
When Trump told the NRA that they “have a friend in me,” he kicked the door the rest of the way open for the kind of massacres we are now seeing. Do those who supposedly represent us have a brain cell left in their heads?
If you dare to go to a theater, a concert, church or any gathering, you’re in danger. It’s time to tell that mealy mouthed gang in Washington to stop this and stop it now.
Micki Moulton, Taylorsville