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Arizona lawmaker brings personal story, gun-reform plea to Washington

WASHINGTON – State Rep. Jennifer Longdon, D-Phoenix, didn’t need to tell congressional lawmakers Thursday about the harm firearms can do: She showed them, when she rolled her wheelchair into a House hearing on the costs of gun violence. Longdon is paralyzed from the chest down, and her ex-fiancé lives with brain trauma and blindness, after […]

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