N.Y. Rep. McCarthy: 'We Have To Break The Myth Of The NRA'
Posted: January 16, 2013
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TweetAudie Cornish talks to Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) about President Obama's new initiatives to curb gun violence. In 1993, her husband was killed and her son gravely injured in a mass shooting on the Long Island Railroad. Since then, McCarthy has become an outspoken advocate for gun control.
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