Past shootings of US presidents led to new gun controls. This one probably won’t
- Written by David Smith, Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
The shooting of former president Donald Trump and three attendees at his rally was just one of nearly 300 mass shootings in the US so far this year.
Amid all the shocking news from that day, there was one depressingly familiar detail. The shooter used an AR-15 style rifle, the kind of semiautomatic weapon that has featured in dozens of mass...
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