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    | NY: Baby Steps Are Not Enough Submitted by: 
			
Mark A. Taff
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    | October 1, 2017, isn’t that long ago when you think about it. That date is memorable because it was a day when 59 innocent people were gunned down by a deranged shooter at a music festival. The shooting captured the attention of people around the world because it was the largest mass murder in American history.
 
 The average citizen can’t do much to avoid another such tragedy because we lack the power to stop such an event from happening. However, there is one group that could be effective in stopping a future mass killing if only they cared enough to do something. I refer to the members of the U.S. Congress.
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    | There is NOT any  gov. entity that can stop a mass shooting, only the people at the active shoot can stop it if the gov allows them to have the means of self defense !!!!!!!!!!! |  
 
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