Where is the outrage on 'private murders'?

We’ve recently been bombarded by the White House, Congress and state leaders with a plea to outlaw assault weapons that they seemingly cannot come to any consensus as to what they comprise.

The dictionary defines assault as a “threat to inflict physical harm on another individual.”

I suspect there isn’t one of us who does not anguish when some deranged individual goes into a classroom and shoots children, opens fire in a theater with the intent of killing movie goers, drug dealers shooting innocent people or people murdering law enforcement officers. We also abhor people who would kill a spouse and unborn offspring with an ice pick. All of these recent acts have been committed by individuals with instruments that could be considered “assault weapons.”

I personally believe the greatest assault weapons in modern times have been the instruments that are used in abortion clinics by abortion providers. Twenty kids in a classroom being shot by a nut, is truly a tragic event but this number pales in comparison to the estimated 50 million kids whose lives were terminated by a procedure in a clinic. Perhaps the public outrage we exhibit in a public murder is simply an attempt to salve our conscience regarding the private murders in a clinic.

DR. BOB BASH

Sandpoint