Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. By Christine Vestal
Note: If you or someone you know is in crisis and needs help, call 911 for emergency services or call the 24-hour National Suicide Prevention Lifeline hotline 1-800-273-8255 to be connected to a trained counselor at a suicide crisis center near you. You can also call the national Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222.
U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Hyde Park) wants the federal government to enact gun control.
Pressley expressed support for the following gun policies in a recent interview with Boston Public Radio: universal background checks, raising the federalage to buy a gun from 18 to 21, red-flag laws, and an assault weapons ban.
