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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
I don't find it that tough at all. There's a lot of mass shootings in a country where there are a lot of guns, and a lot of politicians that don't want anything to do with any kind of gun control legislation. After the mass shooting in Texas some politicians were talking about arming teachers and making schools tougher to get into. Not gun control. Arming teachers. More guns.
Lots of guns = lots of gun related deaths. Pretty easy.
I can't access that NYT article anymore, but next time there's a mass shooting with 10 people shot and 'only' 1 or 2 dead I'm going to call it a mass shooting. Because that's what it is.
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Mass shootings of the broadest category (600+ last year, up from 400 the year before) are a big part of the violent crime wave that has become a huge election issue in the U.S. 70 per cent of Black Democrats (compared with 34 per cent of white Democrats) say addressing violent crime should be a top priority of government in the next year - presumably because they’re exposed to it far more often.
So what’s your plan for reducing gun violence in the next 12 months in communities awash in illegal handguns?