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Business leaders call on congress to act on gun violence

(Tamir Kalifa | The New York Times) Jackie Hernandez kneels at a makeshift memorial for victims of the shooting that killed 22 people at a Walmart store, in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 27, 2019. Chief executives of some of the nation’s best-known companies sent a letter to Senate leaders on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, urging an expansion of background checks to all firearms sales and stronger “red flag” laws.