LETTER: Assault weapon propaganda

In response to Steve Wheat’s letter to the editor of June 23:

Let me get this straight — A Muslim kills or wounds nearly 100 people in Orlando, and you want to punish freedom-loving Americans by taking away our gun rights. It is America’s fault because of our lax gun laws. Democrats don’t care a bit about the American victims in Orlando but see it as a convenient excuse to further their far-left causes.

This mass killing in Orlando could have been curtailed quickly if even one or two citizens had concealed weapons and the knowledge of how to use them. This isn’t about gun laws. It is about the failure of Hillary and Obama policies in Iraq, Syria, Benghazi, and the Middle East and dealing with Islam.

In the Army, we shot the M-16 out to 300 yards with open sights, a perfect hunting rifle. The AR-15 in the .308 caliber is an excellent big-game rifle. Any veteran knows that the AR-15 is not an assault rifle. Ban the AR-15 platform and you can ban any rifle on the market today.

The phrase “assault weapon” is propaganda. When the press or someone says “assault weapon,” you are hearing the same propaganda tactics perfected by Hitler in the 1930s. Banning weapons was one of Hitler’s prime objectives as it is for Obama and his supporters and is quietly being supported by one of Obama’s most avid supporters, Jon Tester, who certainly does not represent Montanan views.

The childish actions of Democrats in Congress show that they and Jon Tester would rather go after Americans’ freedoms than deal with the Islam problem. Do Democrats care about 100 American casualties in Orlando? As Hillary said about dead Americans in Benghazi: “What difference, at this point, does it make?”

—Max Agather, Kalispell