When does it finally become too much? How many shootings, how many maimings, how many deaths — how many children must die — before our government finally does something about the proliferation of guns in the United States? We invaded Iraq over weapons of mass destruction; this man, Stephen Paddock, had a large cache of them in Las Vegas. We must get fully-automatic and easily modified semi-automatic weapons off our streets.
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Letter: Government must act
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