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In Colorado - NRA-backed congressman booed at town hall over guns
In Colorado, near where the Aurora and Columbine massacres happened...
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NRA-backed congressman booed at town hall over guns
by ASSOCIATED PRESS
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. — Grumbling and jeers met the request for a moment of silence for the 17 people killed last week in the Florida school shooting.
"Let's do something for them!" one man yelled at the beginning of Republican Rep. Mike Coffman's town hall Tuesday night. Another participant cried out, "We're done with thoughts and prayers!"
Coffman's swing district in the Denver suburbs is all too familiar with mass shootings.
A few miles to the northeast of the high school that hosted Tuesday's town hall is the location of the Aurora theater massacre, where 13 people were shot to death in 2012. A few miles to the southwest of the town hall site, just across the district line, is Columbine High School, the site of the 1999 school shooting that killed 12.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-congressman-booed-town-hall-people-demand-action-guns-n849896
