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Fourteen lives shattered in the night, two of them extinguished.

We all want the same next: Justice, and for deadly gun violence to end – in Montgomery and beyond.

We want real solutions, and that’s not a quick fix.

It’s not the National Guard.

Now, let me make this clear, for the people in the back, for former U.S. House member Jerry Carl and other Republicans frothing to flood Montgomery with troops: Demanding viable solutions to gun violence does not absolve, excuse or in any way diminishes blame.

All of those who sprayed gunfire on a crowded downtown street last Saturday night should be found, charged, tried and prosecuted to the fullest extent. And then some.

Carl wants to storm Montgomery. “If they wa

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