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Zoe Lofgren: “As a parent, I can only imagine what you are going through, and any time an innocent person is lost to violence, I think…”

On the recordJuly 22, 2015
As a parent, I can only imagine what you are going through, and any time an innocent person is lost to violence, I think it is important that we all stop and consider what steps could we take, what policies and processes, procedures, and rules, and laws could be altered so that we would have a safer community, so that that tragedy would not occur.
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Zoe Lofgren
Democratic · California

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Lofgren emphasizes the need for policy changes to prevent violence.

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