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Crack down on gun laws

I am extremely concerned about the increasingly frequent occurrence of firearms falling into the wrong hands, especially those of children, as reported in the Sept. 11 story, “Police: Boy shot his half-brother in neck.”

I believe that there should be harsher punishments for those who violate gun laws because current ones aren’t keeping our nation’s youth safe.

A child cannot be blamed for picking up a loaded firearm lying right in front of him/her that the parents knowingly left sitting out, such as the case in this article.

With harsher punishments for gun-related law violations, our youth would become much safer.

Anna Michelow

Altoona

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