To begin the working group he convened on gun violence, Ron Latz led not with a policy proposal but a frightening personal experience as a St. Louis Park City Council member.

“In my first month on the city council I got a death threat on my voicemail because of action we were taking with regards to the deer population,” the DFL state senator said.

What ensued after Latz’s remarks on Monday was north of three hours of utterly gut wrenching public testimony in a packed Minnesota Senate Building hearing room.

Parents of the children shot two weeks ago at Annunciation Catholic School detailed not just learning of a shooting that killed two and injured 21 people, but the traumatic aftermath.

“My children are not the same kids that I dropped off that morning,” testified Carla Maldonado, pare

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