Platform : ‘The Right to Bear Arms Is Outdated’
YEPHET COPELAND
Former member of the Hoover Street Crips, 23, South-Central Los Angeles
Maybe we need the Marines to come in and take the guns out of here. But as long as they keep selling them, people will keep getting them. You think the killing will stop when there are so many guns out there? Maybe banning guns could help stop the violence. But I think a better way is to get everybody together and work on the community.
Everybody needs to come together and change things. We need better schools and jobs. That’s the way you stop the killing. You have to offer hope. If there’s no hope, the killing will go on--gun ban or not.
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