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County executives weigh in on gun control

Wednesday December 19, 2012 10:48 AM By Robert Brodsky

Long Island’s two county executives are weighing in on the national gun control debate after Friday’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., which left 20 children and six adults dead.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, a Democrat, said “it is long past time for our nation to have a serious conversation on how we stop the epidemic of gun violence. The time has...

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