In response to Saturday's front-page headline "'Evil visited this community'":
Evil did not commit the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School. This was the natural, foreseeable result of legally owned semiautomatic weapons being accessible to a mentally ill young man during a violent episode.
While not all mentally ill people are violent, how can we tell if someone who is will have a violent episode so that we can keep semiautomatic weapons away from him? We can't.
So why do civilians need semiautomatic weapons?
Donald Dozer Chardon