I am a Vietnam Veteran with school-age grandchildren. Assault weapons are weapons of war designed for maximum lethality with high rates of fire at high velocity. In seconds, due to this high velocity, the bullet energy destroys bones and organs. This is not your grandfather’s hunting rifle.
My grandchildren have active shooter training to hide, flee or confront a shooter—really? I didn’t have to think about being shot until the military.
Arming teachers? Aside from whether this is appropriate, it is not doable given school campus size and points of vulnerability. Just ask anyone who has set up a defensive perimeter with overlapping fields of fire.
Should we have employees of shopping malls, movie theaters, churches and other gathering places also armed? There is a simpler solution: a national ban on assault weapons like the AR-15.
Ask your elected representatives to support such a ban.
Pete Kutras
Morgan Hill
