My definition of an assault weapon might help letter writer Richard Aspinall. (“There’s no real definition of assault weapons,” June 21) An assault weapon: a military weapon created to kill; to kill as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.
Mr. Aspinall wants us to wake up.
I wake up to an America that is so violent I don’t recognize it as the country it once was.
I wake up to news of another mass shooting, another one and another one.
I wake up to a country where it’s dangerous to send our kids to school, to attend church, to go shopping, to enjoy an evening out.
I wake up to the NRA and gun lobby brainwashing people into believing that we want to ban all guns. People want reasonable gun control, such as banning assault weapons.
I wake up to the NRA putting power and money above the lives of fellow Americans.
I wish Mr. Aspinall a good night’s sleep. He might wake up and realize that we’re all in this together.
Nancy Essner
Brunswick
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