“A year ago, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs released a grim report. It included this: ‘The average number of veterans who died by suicide each day remained unchanged at 20.’ Marysville’s Ray Miller wants to talk about that, and about all gun violence. Miller, a 69-year-old Air Force veteran, has heard stories of despair. ‘A hopeless person is the most dangerous person on the planet,’ he said Wednesday. That’s a haunting statement. Surely a lack of hope applies not only to people who commit suicide, but to school shooters and workplace killers, and in gun crimes involving domestic violence, addiction and gangs.”

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