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Why mass murderers prefer guns to wood-chippers.
Taking a Gander
Last weekend, it happened again. Another mass shooting—eight dead, two wounded, shot by a relative. It could have been a school, a corporate headquarters or a women’s health clinic; the details are mostly irrelevant. What is relevant is that these events have one common denominator: Guns.
The regularity of mass killings is hard to ignore. It’s a horror that has haunted America for decades and has accelerated exponentially since the mother of mass shootings—University of Texas tower in 1966. Sure, you can say, “Well, the population has grown substantially.”
But how can anyone rationalize that…
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