I just read a letter to the editor from an apparent gun owner regarding the AR-15 who wrote, “these lightweight modern sporting rifles may look intimidating but they are just the natural evolution of gun technology replacing heavy, bolt-action, wood-stocked rifles of the past” (“AR-15 is natural evolution,” Our Readers’ Views, June 15).
These are magazine-fed, semi-automatic rifles. So owners of these rifles find it “sporting” to use them when hunting? Where’s the sport in using rapid-fire weapons when hunting? And now these rifles with “folding stocks … for easier storage” are being used to kill innocent men, women and children. Will this gun owner change his thinking when his own child, grandchild or relative is a victim of this “sporting” rifle? I hope it doesn’t come to that, for his sake.
