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Vestal admits gun violence causes

Sat., Nov. 30, 2019

Wow! Breakthrough! I don’t believe it, but in Shawn Vestal’s Nov. 24 column in the Spokesman-Review, “New red-flag gun laws are halting violence,” he admitted what we all have known for years: Drugs and mental illness are the causes of gun violence. He has betrayed the brotherhood of gun confiscators by his admission.

Will Shawn now refrain from calling for initiatives that take guns away from law-abiding citizens who have never done anything wrong? I doubt it!

John Bunch

Mead

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