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6. OTOH I'd rather we focused policy on the "normal" shootings that kill many more people
Sun Jun 12, 2016, 12:42 PM
Jun 2016

I get that you have to follow public engagement, and unfortunately it's mass shootings that do that, but if this is a "normal" day 60 people died from "normal" shootings (40 of them suicides) in addition to the 50 at the nightclub. I bring this up because the policies that might address the one problem might not address the other...

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