It is somewhat encouraging the NRA uncharacteristically is agreeing that banning the sale of bump stocks that attach to assault-type weapons, making them shoot even more rapidly, is a good idea.
However, let us remember that the Democratic majority in Congress wrote and President Bill Clinton signed an assault weapons ban in 1994. Unfortunately, it had a 10-year sunset provision that, unless renewed, expired. By 2004, there was a Republican president and majority in Congress, and they did not renew the assault-weapon ban. It could have been more comprehensively and effectively rewritten after 10 years of experience, and there is a possibility it would have prevented mass shootings.
We now have a president and Congress that never will consider, let alone enact, an assault-weapon ban.
It has become graphically, horrifically, and undeniably evident we should elect leaders in Washington, D.C., who would.
Jim Waldo
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Duluth
