'What Are We Going to Do About Guns?': Jacksonville Councilman Demands Gun Reform After Second Shooting in Under 48 Hours

'What Are We Going to Do About Guns?': Jacksonville Councilman Demands Gun Reform After Second Shooting in Under 48 Hours
AlterNet
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Chris Sosa
August 26, 2018Video

A Jacksonville, Florida city councilman named Reggie Gaffne spoke to local news anchors after a mass shooting at a video game tournament that left four people dead.

 “My question — I’m asking to America, I’m asking to Jacksonville, I’m asking to the state — what are we going to do about guns?”

He said that the country and Jacksonville are facing a gun problem. Sunday's shooting is the second headline-grabbing shooting in Gaffne's district in the last 48 hours.

“We’ve really got to ask ourselves two questions,” Gaffne said. “What are we going to do about guns? And we’ve really got to get focused on getting closer with the Lord.”

Watch the video below.
(This article was corrected at 4:35 p.m. ET to change "mass shooting" to "shooting" in the headline and article body.)
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