In the Public Forum on March 20, Matthew Hansen suggested changes in age restrictions, health laws, background checks and mandatory firearm training to help reduce gun violence.
I don’t disagree. Such changes should be part of the solution.
But I don’t see enough opinions being expressed about the prevalence of assault weapons.
I would like to have the following law in place:
It would be a federal crime to sell, purchase, own or possess any weapon that can fire more than two rounds without being manually reloaded. The law would similarly prohibit a device that could alter a weapon to fire rounds automatically.
Those weapons whose purposes are self defense, hunting or target practice would be unaffected.
This fall, I will have the students in my statistics class at UVU survey the opinions on campus with respect to such a law. I am curious to see the results.
Douglas Thompson, Orem
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