White House suggests more gun control in strict Baltimore after bloody Memorial Day weekend
Katie Pavlich for TownHall.com reports:
Over the long holiday weekend in Baltimore, 29 were shot and nine were killed. The violence came just weeks after violent riots and protests over the death of Freddie Grey, who died in police custody….When asked about the violence yesterday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest suggested more gun control was one of the solutions.
“Obviously there’s some common sense things we could do – certainly passage of some gun safety laws in Congress that could keep guns out of the hands of criminals would be one thing that we could do to try to limit the violence,” Earnest said.
….Maryland already has strict gun control laws….it was just two short years ago that new gun control measures were passed through despite overwhelming opposition.
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