Assault weapon semantics

Weapons of any kind can be used to threaten, harm or even kill. And weapons can also be used to defend against any threat to humans and human life itself. Now to Linda Green’s letter (“Ban assault weapons,” Oct. 9.) Any object, once used as a weapon, is, by definition, an “assault” weapon when used either illegally or legally. The magic word “semantics” doth arise to identify and clarify any particular weapons related assault.

Green wants us to: “At least support a ban on the sale of these (assault) weapons that create so much carnage.” Weapons cannot create anything. Criminals create illegal criminal actions that can harm the unaware and/or the unarmed. An untrained and unarmed person can be a criminal’s safest contact and indeed can invite violent criminal behavior(s). Conversely, an armed and trained law-abiding person can prevent a violent criminal attack against his/her person or another innocent.

Assaulting the Constitution’s Second Amendment’s “arms” provision is often genuinely counter-productive to one’s life and livingness.

Edward Farr

Colbert