Readers React:  Who needs an assault weapon, anyway?

To the editor: Would someone please explain to me (and the rest of the country) how average citizens owning assault weapons fulfills the necessity of the 2nd Amendment’s “well-regulated militia?” (“Justices may take up assault weapons ban,” Oct. 10)

In fact, when in modern times has this country even had a “well-regulated militia?”

Ron Streicher, Pasadena

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To the editor: We have a crazed minority running this country, and there is nothing we can do to stop it unless we change the Constitution.

Two articles side by side in your paper ironically provide the “smoking gun.” One headline describes a recent deadly day on college campuses by gun shooters. The other headline says the Supreme Court may take up an assault weapons ban.

Somebody has to take down the NRA, but since money runs this country now, I don’t know how it will ever happen.

S.R. Fischer, Los Angeles

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To the editor: David H. Thompson, the lawyer for gun owners in Illinois, says semiautomatic weapons “are some of the most popular firearms commonly used by law-abiding citizens.”

Pray tell, what are they used for? One doesn’t even need to be good at aiming them; just sweep them back and forth and you’re bound to hit something.

Is that what makes them so popular? They are nothing more than lethal toys.

Julie-Beth Adele, Long Beach

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