Guns, money top issues for Legislature

By Howard Fischer

Capitol Media Services|Arizona Daily Sun

It may sound like a movie title.

But the issues that are going to dominate the upcoming legislative session are guns and money.

And they’re even related: If Gov. Jan Brewer and lawmakers want more protection from gun violence for students in public schools and to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, they’re going to have to come up with more cash.

Lawmakers return to the Capitol Monday with the prospect of having perhaps $600 million more in anticipated revenues than what it will take just to keep state services at current levels.

But that presumes that the current level of funding is, in fact, adequate.

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