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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
March 19, 2024

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Letter: Common-sense calls for gun laws

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Not a single morning goes by that I don’t wonder for a split second if my children will be murdered by a gunman that day. The way America is living is madness and far from the American dream.

Yet I wonder if our politicians from Washington state — like Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Vancouver, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., and Rep. Joyce McDonald, R-Wash. — who all have accepted contributions from the National Rifle Association, even think of the teachers and students across our country. Armed with crayons and staplers, they have been asked to stand up to gunmen because the lawmakers are too scared to stand up to a handful of lobbyists.

There are 310 million guns in America, yet the number of mass shootings stopped by an armed civilian in the past 30 years is zero. I want to know what responsible gun owners think the solution is? They must have the same concern for their children as I have for mine. Our politicians don’t seem to think that it is an issue that deeply troubled young men are buying more guns to fuel the obsession or that there is a need for safer gun storage.

Status quo isn’t working. It is time for common-sense gun laws.

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