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

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.

I have wondered why veterans, especially those who have served in battle and know from intimate experience the horror of what automatic weapons do, have not supported the ban of such weapons in civilian hands.