Politics and Guns
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From the Center
Gun control: where glimmers of compromise may be appearing
It’s perhaps America’s most intractable life-and-death dilemma: The mounting human – and increasingly public – toll of gun violence.
The Las Vegas Strip massacre became the deadliest such attack since the Thibodeaux Massacre in Louisiana and several other mass killings of black Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It comes just over a year after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., which killed 49 people and previously stood as the largest mass shooting in modern US history.
From the Right
Politicians and Guns: Follow the Votes, not the Money
An old rule of thumb holds that when someone says it's not about the money, it's really about the money.
But there are exceptions to almost every rule. The National Rifle Association is a case in point.
From the Left
Will the NRA Use Regulation of “Bump Stocks” as Excuse to Avoid “Real Action” on Gun Control?
On Thursday, the National Rifle Association said it would support additional regulation on the gun accessory known as “bump stocks.” Investigators believe the device was used in Sunday night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas, i
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