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On the recordDecember 3, 2015
I think, the one thing that this highlights as does the shooting in Colorado Springs a week before and the one before that, and before that, is that we have a serious gun violence issue. We have a lot of people that die every year, up to 33,000 people in this country die every year from gun violence.
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Mark Kelly
Democratic · Arizona

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Mark Kelly emphasizes the ongoing gun violence issue in the U.S. and the high number of annual deaths due to it.

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