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Letter: Congress ignores problem of guns

By Peter Harrison, Vancouver
Published: May 22, 2018, 6:00am

A reporter asked Paige Curry, a student at Santa Fe High School in Texas, whether she was surprised by the shooting at her school on Friday, whether she thought “this would not happen at my school?”

“No … It’s been happening everywhere.”

A strong majority of gun owners support mandatory background checks, testing requirements for concealed-carry permits, licensing for all gun purchases, and safe gun-storage laws to help keep guns out of the hands of minors, but what was our Republican Congress’ response to the Valentine’s Day massacre at Parkland High School in Florida? Thoughts and prayers. No new gun laws.

Worse yet, following last October’s Las Vegas massacre, our representative, Jaime Herrera Beutler, voted for and President Trump signed a law that didn’t ban bump stocks, but it did extended the right of residents from states with no concealed-carry permit requirement to concealed-carry weapons in states like ours, which do. Worse yet, that law also allows those unlicensed gun owners to carry on school grounds.

Kids, most adults really do care. They want to protect you from gun violence. The problem is that politicians, like Herrera Beutler, won’t do the right thing.

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