USA: Opinion | Why America Can’t Fix Its Gun Violence Crisis - by Spencer Bokat-Lindell

On an average day in the United States, more than 100 people are killed by guns. Whenever the fact of this ambient crisis rises back to the surface of national consciousness, as it has this past week, it tends to inspire a certain mystified resignation. Politicians and commentators, acting in good faith and bad, probe the problem with the same stock of questions: Was mental illness to blame? White male supremacy or Islamic extremism? Video games? (If guns don’t kill people, perhaps PlayStations do.)

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