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What's the Solution to Gun Violence in America? [TheAtlantic.com]

 

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Any American with even a glancing familiarity with the news can rattle off the progression, a litany of place names transformed from cities and towns into metonyms for gun violence: San Bernardino, Colorado Springs, Umpqua, Charleston, Fort Hood, Navy Yard, Sandy Hook, Aurora …. That doesn’t even take into account the thousands Americans killed by guns in single-death murders, or the roughly 21,000 who take their own lives with firearms annually.

The many shootings have produced a robust (if seemingly gridlocked) debate about how to stop gun violence.



[For more of this story, written by David A. Graham, go to http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...gun-violence/462537/]

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