Letter: We need stricter gun regulations

What must residents of other advanced nations think when they see a band of armed, self-appointed vigilantes openly carrying assault rifles, wearing crisscrossed ammunition belts, and scaring the hell out of fellow citizens? Has America turned into a banana republic? How could this happen to the world’s oldest democracy, a once-proud model for other nations? Only the pitifully deranged find flashing an AK-47 at a rally acceptable.Most Americans are ashamed of this childish, dangerous, life