This is what makes the AR-15 exclusively a weapon of war

To the editor: Jackie Calmes discusses AR-15-style weapons. She seems to not know sufficient about these weapons to make a convincing argument that their possession, possession and sale by civilians needs to be unlawful.

These weapons make the most of ammunition consisting of a protracted, comparatively giant diameter shell that’s designed to carry a considerable amount of explosive powder, however that has a really slender neck to carry a protracted, slender slug. This slug is subsequently blasted out at a really excessive muzzle velocity of three,300 toes per second.

The AR-15 is designed to trigger a really damaging shock wave that creates a very great amount of tissue injury. Due to the projectile’s terribly excessive velocity and comparatively heavy weight, it severely injures or kills just about any individual in its path. It could additionally simply penetrate partitions, furnishings and even people and nonetheless injure or kill somebody behind.

These traits make the AR-15 far too harmful and damaging for house or enterprise protection. Due to the extraordinary tissue injury created, an AR-15 is wholly unsuitable for looking. It’s a weapon of conflict appropriate just for warfare no less than a mile away from any civilians.

David Rudich, Phoenix

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To the editor: The lesson realized from the 1999 Columbine Excessive College mass capturing was that regulation enforcement should act shortly and decisively when such a capturing happens.

The police who responded to the capturing in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022 didn’t get that memo. In distinction, Nashville police and The Covenant College’s school and employees acted heroically, saving lives.

And Republicans in Congress? Cease standing round, checking your telephones and sanitizing your arms. Fast and decisive legislative motion to ban non-public possession of assault weapons will save lives.

Leonard Wapner, Seal Seashore

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To the editor: Disgustingly, I’ve seen some GOP representatives shamelessly carrying lapel pins formed like an AR-15 assault weapon.

I counsel that Democratic representatives put on a button with the face, identify and age of a kid killed by gun violence. These gun-loving lawmakers want an in-your-face reminder of what these weapons do to youngsters.

Joyce Chonis, Westchester