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SHOOTINGS IN TRENTON, DC MUST BE 'WAKE UP CALL'
By droseman(TRENTON) - Assemblyman Reed Gusciora said yesterday's shooting death of a young man in Trenton - the second such killing in the city in three days - coupled with today's shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, should serve as wake-up calls to state and national leaders of the need for tighter gun restrictions and tougher penalties for gun-related crimes.
"Our state and national capitals have in successive days seen the worst of our gun culture and borne the brunt of gun-related violence," said Gusciora (D-Mercer). "How many more senseless shootings need to occur? If this doesn't serve as a wake-up call that we need tougher laws to restrict access to guns and go after the criminals who flout gun laws, then nothing will."
In Trenton, a 23-year-old man was gunned down yesterday in what police believe was gang-related violence. That shooting came on the heels of Sunday's death of an innocent 13-year-old girl in a drive-by shooting.
Earlier today, a man with a criminal record and known ties to the white supremacist movement opened fire with a rifle at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, killing a security guard.
"In the zeal to protect absolute gun rights for all, the pro-gun lobby fails to acknowledge the violence and bloodshed their shoot-first-ask-questions-later mentality has unleashed in our neighborhoods and now even in our most solemn and hallowed places," said Gusciora.
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