High-profile shootings fail to spur gun control

[Common Sense Party]

The red billboard truck traveling around the United States has a big number emblazoned on its side — 2,995 as of last week, the running tab of people murdered by guns in the U.S. since the Jan 8. shooting in Tucson that left six people dead and 13 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.

The truck started off in New York's Times Square and will traverse the U.S. keeping an updated tally on gun deaths as part of an effort by 550 Mayors Against Illegal Guns to galvanize support for stricter gun laws.

Yet despite the highly visible campaign, there is no groundswell for additional gun regulations in the wake of the Tucson shootings or the murder of a Texas ICE agent in Mexico with a weapon purchased in Dallas.

A loose consensus has emerged that recognizes that "these killings are the shooter's responsibility — not the gun's responsibility," says Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

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