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Silencers would have made massacre even deadlier

An AR-15 rifle with an attached silencer lies on the floor at a gun range at the NRA headquarters, in Fairfax, Va., on March 20, 2017.
An AR-15 rifle with an attached silencer lies on the floor at a gun range at the NRA headquarters, in Fairfax, Va., on March 20, 2017. Ali Rizvi TNS

The irony of the Las Vegas massacre is it happened on the eve of NRA’s latest proposal about to make it through Congress, legalizing silencers for these atrocities.

Imagine how many more victims that would have enabled the killer to have silenced.

James Carlisle, Atascadero

This story was originally published October 4, 2017 at 7:16 AM with the headline "Silencers would have made massacre even deadlier."

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