Editor,

Wednesday, Dec. 14, will mark the 10-year anniversary of the tragic mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, which took the lives of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Our nation continues to endure these senseless shootings ... seemingly on a monthly basis. It is our hope that legislators from all political parties continue to collaboratively work toward legislation that will reduce the awful scourge of gun deaths in our country.

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Terence Y

Actually, Al and Joanne Comolli, we already have penal codes that if enforced, would reduce much of the awful scourge of gun deaths and senseless shootings in our country. Enforcing the penal code might have prevented some of the over 3200 people shot in Chicago, along with 658 shooting deaths, just this calendar year. In California, didn’t Newsom sign a bill to allow individuals to sue gun manufacturers over crimes committed with their weapons? Perhaps we should have legislation to allow anyone to sue those who do not enforce the penal code, or those who prefer releasing tens of thousands, if not a hundred thousand criminals back into the wild to commit crimes. To wit, Governor Newsom…

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