Here’s a video you must watch, showing veterans opposed to military style assault weapons:
Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, creator of the video:
I carried an M4 in the military. It was a very scary thing to see just how efficient and powerful and dangerous it was. It was developed for one reason – to be a weapon of war made for creating carnage and doing so in a way that you don't have to stop to reload.”
Over the past few years he watched aghast as these kinds of high-powered rifles were turned on innocent people in attacks across America, from Sandy Hook to Las Vegas. And then, on Valentine’s Day, a gunman attacked the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people.
“I think when Parkland happened, it was a breaking point,” Kyle says. “This was maybe the sixth mass shooting to happen using the same rifle, the AR-15, the civilian version of what we carried.
I never handled a weapon like this in the Navy (you don’t need one on an aircraft carrier), though my brother and father did in the Army. My father wholeheartedly agrees with this sentiment.
Edit: This video is a good way to put to rest the lie that the AR-15 is different from the weapons the military uses. It’s not.