Nineteen years ago Thursday, Garrett McGuire was in his senior year at Virginia Tech when gun shots rang out across campus. Now McGuire is a member of the Virginia General Assembly which passed new gun laws he hopes will ensure such shootings never happen again.
“The goal is to get guns out of the hands of individuals who should not have them,” said the Fairfax-area Democratic Thursday morning, speaking to the gun bills he brought to Richmond this past session that are soon-to-be signed by Governor Abigail Spanberger.
His interest in stopping gun violence today stems from his own experience 19 years ago when he was a student at Virginia Tech and 32 people were murdered…