Author: Eileen McCarron
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Let’s keep guns out of violent hands in Colorado
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Eileen McCarron In the days following the mass shooting tragedy at a Boulder King Soopers, an oft-repeated question was, “How was the alleged shooter allowed to buy a gun?” Yes, he had a history of violence, yet was able to purchase high-powered weaponry with ease and used it to kill ten people while they innocently…
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McCarron: Douglas County School District acquires war weapons for security
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Seventeen years ago, Colorado was horrified at the massacre at Columbine High School, where 12 students and one educator were shot and killed. Families who sent their children off to study in the morning spent terrifying hours awaiting word of their survival. Twelve never heard those words of relief. A sad and misdirected marking of…
