At some point during the night, obsessively checking the news upon awakening (briefly), I saw that the shooter who killed 18 innocents with an assault rifle at two locations in Lewiston, Maine, earlier in the week had been found dead, apparently a suicide.
It must be frightening to live in a country where a deranged person can acquire a weapon of that sort with such ease and then use it to kill so many people so readily.
Oh wait --- that's us.
Assault weapons have one purpose only --- to kill large numbers of people efficiently.
Justifiable I suppose in a military or law enforcement setting, there's no reason at all for civilian ownership.
Ban assault weapons. Period.
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