Ban assault weapons

I was upset reading the story of Caleb Collier wanting to make Spokane Valley a Second Amendment Sanctuary City. Then the following day I read about five people killed at a mall north of Seattle.

The proliferation of guns only adds to the senseless killing of people in our country and because of it we are less safe, not more safe as the gun wielders suggest. The police can attest to that.

No city in the state has made a similar proposal because Washington law makes it unnecessary. Since Collier’s proposal was in response to a possible ban on assault weapons, using the proclamation as a lobbying tool in the state Legislature, as Ed Pace suggests, would indicate that Spokane Valley residents want more assault weapons available for people to kill other people. That is the only purpose of assault weapons: to kill people.

Let us at least support a ban on the sale of these weapons that create so much carnage. It does not impinge on our Second Amendment rights, which refers to a well-regulated militia, not a number of individuals who would use assault rifles on other citizens whenever they feel like it.

Linda Greene

Spokane