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<p>I am an independent voter. I would like to know how passing a law can really affect these mass killings.</p><p>Explain to me how the proposed legislation &#8211; using a no-fly list (which even Ted Kennedy and Congressman John Lewis were on), expanding gun control laws, closing the supposed gun show loophole &#8211; would have stopped any of these mass killers.</p><p>Not one of the killers bought a gun via the supposed gun show loophole. Not one of the killers was on the no-fly list. All either bought the guns legally, or took them from someone who bought them legally. Not one measure being considered would have stopped the killers or will do so in the future.</p><p>If you think banning assault-style weapons would do it, think of the recent Washington Navy Yard mass killing (at a well-protected Navy yard) with a shotgun, or Boston with pressure cooker bombs, or aircraft flying into buildings, and so on. The problem is the radical jihadists and other insane people.</p><p>I don&#8217;t want to hear that we must do something even if it is not effective. That is totally insane, will contribute to the divide, do nothing to stop the killings, and be nothing but pure political theater.</p><p>What the Democrats were doing in the House of Representatives with their crazy demonstration disgusted me. Using the lives lost, when they know the measures they are considering would do nothing to stop the killers, is deplorable.</p><p><strong>C. Mangan</strong></p><p>Kingston</p><style>
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Letter to the Editor: Nation’s proposed gun laws ineffective against mass killings