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Shooting for safety
Business Standard
|July 16, 2024
US badly needs stricter gun-control laws
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The bullet that nicked the tip of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's right ear on Saturday has created political turmoil in the campaign for the United States' (US') highest office. But as the two parties and presidential candidates seek to calm a deeply polarised nation, their leaders are exchanging heated rhetoric over political responsibility; whether the Democrats' description of Mr Trump as an existential threat to America provoked a registered Republican to attempt to assassinate him. Missing in this war of words is the key issue embedded in this incident: The urgent need for more stringent gun controls. Disturbing facts reveal the 20-year-old high-school graduate and kitchen worker who shot at Mr Trump, killed a supporter, and injured others had deployed the civilian version of an assault rifle that is widely used by the US military. The rifle was owned by his father but the assassin was a member of a premier shooting club where he practised. His brief story indicates the deeply ingrained gun
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