Letter: When will we demand our liberty from males with assault rifles?

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I’m wondering what number of extra graveside memorials we’ll attend with family and friends of a liked one slaughtered by a person with an assault rifle? What number of extra occasions will our liberty be stolen from us as we “shelter in place” as a result of a person with an assault rifle threatens the group?

What are we keen to pay, time and again, to wash up, bury our lifeless, and heal the wounded after a person with an assault rifle takes our freedom? These are the explanations that in 1994 as a part of laws for public security we banned these killing machines for 10 years. How lengthy will we bury our family members whereas a number of imagine that freedom contains the precise to personal a killing machine that threatens the lives and freedom of everybody else locally — an assault rifle which requires much less regulation or psychological well being than we demand to drive a automotive?

What number of extra family members will die, not in a battle defending our nation, however in a bowling alley, restaurant, or faculty, earlier than we, the vast majority of People, demand our liberty to go to the grocery retailer with out the concern of being gunned down by one other man with an assault rifle?