To Stan Rosenberg, Steve Kulik, Ben Downing, Paul Mark and all the other legislators who criticized Attorney General Maura Healey for taking “copycat” guns off the streets:
What are you thinking? How many more police officers and teenagers and black people and little children and innocent people have to die before you understand that assault rifles (or copycat assault rifles) have no place in our society?
How can you criticize the Attorney General for enforcing a law which should have been enforced years ago? You should be cheering her on, not complaining about not being told in advance of her action.
Maybe, at one time, our forefathers needed muskets to hunt for food and to protect themselves from the wilds of an unknown land, but that time is centuries past. Now guns are being used to settle disputes and arguments and misunderstandings. We have a system of law, courts and judicial procedures for disputes. We do not need assault rifles.
And for those of you who like to hunt “wild animals” — have at it, but you don’t need an assault rifle to bring down a deer or fox or coyote. A single shot rifle will do, if you are any good.
A gold star to Attorney General Healey for doing the right thing; a lump of coal to the legislators for failing to support her.
John Payne
Shelburne