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Anyone debating gun laws has inevitably run into a pro-gun supporter who, pulling out his trump card, has declared: "Guns don't kill people; people kill people!" But what happened in China hours before Newtown demonstrates the folly of this pithy argument.
Only in this country do these kinds of mass shootings occur with such a ludicrous level of frequency; and when they do, we collectively shake and then scratch our stunned heads in sadness and incredulity, while doing nothing. But today's atrocity was especially grievous.
Let's work to ensure that strong, sane gun violence prevention laws become the norm in our country, as they are in other developed nations. We can stifle the violence of the right and, in the process, make the nation safer for all.