Concord Hospital Official Urges Passage of Gun Law After Shooting
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The associate medical director of New Hampshire Hospital urged lawmakers to pass gun control legislation Friday, describing the anguish that followed the fatal shooting of a security officer in the facility’s lobby last year.
‘A coworker was murdered 100 feet from my office,’ Dr. Samanta Swetter told the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee. ‘Then I had to sit there while other people I loved were in danger, and I could do very little to help them.’
The committee was holding public hearings on half a dozen bills seeking to either restrict or expand access to firearms, including one drafted in response to the death of Bradley Haas, who was killed in November by a former patient at the psychiatric hospital in Concord.