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Quoting President Trump, this Texas church massacre, “isn’t a guns situation, it is a mental health problem.”

What an idiotic strategy. These mass murderers typically use semi-automatic assault rifles with thirty round magazines. Mass murderers aren’t using single-shot .22 caliber rifles or flintlocks. These tragedies are the result of the availability and use of assault weapons with large capacity magazines.

Steven Ellersick

Spokane

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