Scalise Shooting: A Renewed Gun-Control Debate

In a nation filled with firearms, “no one is immune” from this country’s culture of gun violence, said Amanda Marcotte on Salon.com.

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Yet even as Republican lawmakers became the target of senseless carnage at a congressional softball practice in Virginia last week, they refused to make it less easy for “a madman with a vendetta to get the weaponry he needs” to wreak havoc. Deceased sniper James Hodgkinson, 66, wounded Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and four others using a legally obtained semi-automatic rifle and handgun, in a rampage apparently motivated by his hatred for President Trump and Republicans. The incident was this year’s 154th mass shooting, as defined by attacks in which four people are shot. And yet to many Republicans, the only solution to this bloodshed “is yet more guns,” said The New York Times in a