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Letters: Guns for the mentally ill? Do you feel safer?

The Republican U.S. House has voted to reinstate easy access to guns to the seriously mental ill and mentally disabled. Probably, the Senate will do the same, and President Donald Trump will sign the bill.

Let there be no restricted access to guns — by anyone, no matter their condition, thanks be to the NRA.

Don’t y’all feel so much safer now?

Susan Grey

Columbia

This story was originally published February 18, 2017 at 4:07 PM with the headline "Letters: Guns for the mentally ill? Do you feel safer?."

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