Widow of murdered UA professor hopes for safer gun laws

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TUCSON, Ariz. — America’s top doctor, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, is stepping up his attack on easy to get guns as a threat to public health. The fight for better gun control has become a special mission for the wife of a University of Arizona professor killed on campus.

“Even with everything that happened leading up to Tom's murder, I never would have thought that this could happen to us.” A jury rejected the plea that Dervish should be confined to a mental hospital. On Monday, he went away to life in prison for first degree murder. Mrs. Meixner wants what’s often called a red flag law that would make it easier to confiscate guns from people with a history of threats or violence.

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