Gun control, gun rights advocates push dueling ballot measures in Washington
SEATTLE — Even for the end of term, the campus was exceptionally empty. The occasional student drifted past Otto Miller Hall, peering into the boxy gray science-and-engineering building, but there was no going inside. Not with the yellow police tape blocking the doors.
It was June 6, and only the day before, the hall had been the site of a deadly shooting, one that brought national attention to Seattle Pacific University.
A mentally unstable gunman had chosen the small Christian university, nestled in a peaceful hilltop neighborhood in northwest Seattle, to carry out a Columbine-style school massacre. He was armed with a legally obtained Browning shotgun and had about 50 rounds stuffed into his pockets. Three students were shot. One, a 19-year-old freshman named Paul Lee, never recovered.
Now, as the tears dry and summer ends, voters in the state of Washington are confronted with a choice, about whether or not more background checks on gun sales would prevent tragedies similar to the one they just witnessed.
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