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Colorado massacre spurs calls for state action on gun deaths

by Lindsay Whitehurst
| March 30, 2021 12:06 AM

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — For the second time in less than a week, a 21-year-old man used a gun purchased legally in the United States to massacre people simply working or visiting a business. The mass shootings in Colorado and Georgia are giving new urgency to state efforts to enact gun restrictions, even while showing how hard it can be to prevent a tragedy.

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