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Booker: 'We've normalized this kind of carnage'

Senator asks how much more bloodshed 'before more Americans join this fight' to curb guns

05/18/2022

NJ Spotlight News

Booker: 'We've normalized this kind of carnage'

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Senator asks how much more bloodshed 'before more Americans join this fight' to curb guns

In Buffalo on Tuesday, President Joe Biden addressed the city mourning those killed Saturday in the racially-motivated mass shooting and called on Congress to get more assault weapons off the streets. In an interview with NJ Spotlight News, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker talks about whether those words hold meaning in a divided America.

05/18/2022

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