Letter: It’s good to get a veteran’s view on assault weapons

(Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) Members of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America gathered at Washington Square Park to demand change in gun laws in reaction to the August mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, and the hundreds of Americans who are wounded and killed by gun violence every day. At last! A veteran of the U.S. military has spoken out! (Maybe others have done so and I missed it.) In a recent letter to The Salt Lake Tribune, Lynn S. Higgins, a veteran of Vietnam and Iraq, explained how the military restricts and controls the use of assault rifles even among the soldiers trained to use them. Then he questions why the civilian world can’t see the problem with allowing their access to untrained and undisciplined civilians.

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