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The problem with obsessing over gun control after school shootings

By Brad Polumbo
Published May 26, 2022 11:00am ET
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The problem with obsessing over gun control after school shootings
Demonstrators hold a banner to protest the visit of President Donald Trump to the border city after the Aug. 3 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 7, 2019. A gunman killing multiple elementary school children and adults in Texas on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, adds to the state's grim recent history of mass shootings. | (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)

The mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, this week has left America in mourning. The horror of the tragedy is still sinking in, and with 21 left dead, including 19 young children, the sheer evil on display is almost too much to comprehend.

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