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Editorial: Domestic abusers still have access to guns. That has got to change

Police tape blocks off the crime scene outside a church where a man shot dead four people, including three of his children, before turning the gun on himself, Feb. 28, 2022, in Sacramento, California.

Seven months before a man shot and killed his three daughters and a family friend in a Sacramento church last week, a man in Kern County shot and killed his wife, two sons and a sheriff’s deputy responding to violence at their home. In July 2020, a Madera County man shot and killed his wife as she was putting their three children in her minivan. And in November 2019, a San Diego man shot and killed his wife and four sons, ranging in age from 3 to 11.

The only thing more horrific than any

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