Editor:
Since the Supreme Court has already ruled that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual’s right to have a firearm which does not have a military value, I think that Tom Townley is a prime example of someone who is twisting and corrupting our Constitution by saying that people do not have the right to have firearms that have military value. Although the civilian semiautomatic firearms are specifically not designed for fully automatic fire like the selective-fire military assault rifles, they still have a military value.
The military ammunition is not good hunting ammunition because it is not designed to tear up what it hits because it would be against the Geneva Convention. Hunting ammunition is designed to tear up what it hits, in order to get a fast, clean kill.
Apparently selective-fire assault rifles are not very effective at killing people, since the Boston area police are reported to have taken 200 or more shots at the two alleged bombers, wounding one or both, and the one killed may have been killed when he was run over. When they shot at the suspect in the boat, they may not have hit him.
Robert A. Steil
Aurora
