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Health & Fitness

Statement in Response to Ed Mangano's Silence on Gun Control

As gun violence continues to plague this county, the regressive tea party agenda remains starkly opposed to common sense action needed to curb violent crime in our communities. Ed Mangano and his team are great at giving snarky responses, but they keep dodging the simple question: do you oppose common-sense gun control legislation?

What is sickening is that, even after mass shootings nationally and after recent events in Hempstead, New Cassell, Garden City, the county executive will not support reasonable gun control because he is beholden to threats of the Tea Party, Conservative Party, and the NRA for anyone supporting legislation vital to curbing senseless and unnecessary acts of gun violence. I again ask the county executive if he will abandon his adherence to conservative tea party interests in direct opposition to these efforts.


Tom Suozzi

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