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time in prison; and a Virginia man who murdered a Virginia State Trooper and another man just last year could be eligible for parole in only seven years.
There are approximately 20,000 gun laws in this country, yet violent crime continues to climb. And it is no coincidence that crime rates, which fell from 1980 to 1984 when the prison population was reaching an all-time high, now are on the rise as crowded prisons turn prisoners loose by the hundreds or refuse to accept new criminals.
It’s a shame we have to be reminded of the truth by such a painful incident occurring so far away. It’s time we learned the lesson. To reduce the abuse of firearms, we must certainly and severely punish the abusers. No law can ever eliminate access to firearms to ,those intent on inflicting evil on good and decent people no matter where they live.
J. Warren Cassidy is the executive vice president of The National Rifle Association. The NRA is one of the country’s most active and outspoken opponents of additional government controls on firearms.
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