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Gun Control Reform Activism

billh58

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2. Of course they do...

Reply to jmg257 (Reply #1)

Thu May 26, 2016, 12:32 PM

May 2016

These brief, lethal outbursts of gunfire stirred no national concern. As a sum, they register like a dispatch from a secret war zone. They were sparked by minor, often drunken grievances — forgettable if guns had not been at hand. And the victims in these shootings are just a subset of the nearly 11,000 Americans killed by guns and the estimated 60,000 wounded each year in single homicides and assaults.

A reduction in gun violence begins with a reduction in the number of guns available to those "responsible in Chicago" and elsewhere.

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