Ohio’s Republican governor urged the GOP-led state Legislature to pass laws requiring background checks for nearly all gun sales.
, during the past weekend left a combined total of 31 people dead and more than 50 injured in less than 24 hours.
Betts had no apparent criminal record as an adult and police said there was nothing that would have prevented him from buying a gun. Ohio law bars anyone convicted of a felony as an adult, or convicted of a juvenile charge that would have been a felony if they were 18 or older, from buying firearms. “He was the bully,” Brickler told the AP. “He used to make fun of me on the bus, talk about my weight, make me feel bad about myself. He would laugh and think it was funny, joke about it. We thought it was a normal thing.”But the seemingly normal heckling turned scary one day when she said two police officers pulled Betts off their bus during her first few weeks of high school.
“Connor Betts that I knew was a nice kid. The Connor Betts that I talked to, I always got along with well,” Howard said.
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