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Rebecca Brady: Expensive ‘protection’

Regarding the March 22 news article “Vote to void LGBT ordinance expected”: If our Republican legislators want to to spend $42,000 a day to “protect women and children,” I’d suggest they pass some common-sense gun laws.

How many women and children have been killed by a transgender person using the restroom? How many have been killed by an angry man with a gun?

Rebecca Brady

Holly Springs

This story was originally published March 22, 2016 at 3:49 PM with the headline "Rebecca Brady: Expensive ‘protection’."

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