Letter: 2nd Amendment wasn't written to protect type of weapons used in mass shootings

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Letter: 2nd Amendment wasn't written to protect type of weapons used in mass shootings

Letter to the editor

Published: Aug 28, 2019, 3:53 PM

Once again the Gainesville Times used the majority of its opinion page on the recent mass shootings. Not once did it mention their common denominator: the guns used to kill all those people. Neither motive nor past behavior matter.

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