After September's deadly school shooting in Georgia, a call goes out for greater gun control
ATLANTA (AP) — A day after Georgia Republican House Speaker Jon Burns unveiled school safety legislation, Democrats and families from Apalachee High School said they want more — namely, gun safety laws.
Both efforts to curb the gun violence come months after a mass shooting at Apalachee, the school northeast of Atlanta where a 14-year-old boy stands accused of killing two teachers and two students and wounding several others last Sept. 4.
The morning of the shooting, senior Isabel Trejo was fretting about an upcoming test while in math class with teacher Richard “Ricky” Aspinwall. He died later that day, one of the four fatal victims. When the shooting started, Trejo told lawmakers at the Capitol on Tuesday, “the minutes that followed felt like an eternity.” snip
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They only way they would agree to anything like that is if someone shoots (and, actually hits) the gibbon or the muskrat. THEN, you might see some action on 'gun control'. Of course it would only be for us. The rich will always get to defend themselves because they are 'special'. 
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