For Star subscribers: As a survival mechanism, we've learned to sedate ourselves against the justified fear and rage that comes welling up after a mass shooting.
Years of absorbing the massacres of our country's children — or the ordinary shootings of our fellow Americans — and doing nothing about it produces in me a narcotic stupor. Maybe in you, too.
People are also reading… Gunfire surpassed car crashes as the top cause of death for children in the United States in 2020. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and even the mayor of Uvalde, Don McLaughlin, have tried desperately to steer the conversation in the aftermath toward mental health problems. We do, of course, have serious mental health problems in the United States, especially after the pandemic, but we're not too different from any other country in that sense.
There is no reason a kid should be able to buy a semi-automatic rifle like an AR-15 as soon as he turns 18, as the killer in Uvalde, Texas, did this month and as the killer in Buffalo did earlier this year. A California law establishing a higher age limit has been challenged in the courts, but it seems obvious that if we regulate teens' purchases of alcohol, we should regulate their purchases of guns.
In Arizona, we flirted with the idea in 2018 and 2019. Gov. Doug Ducey's office analyzed school shootings in 2018 and came back with a raft of proposals for school and gun safety. Ducey said Wednesday it's worth another try. More popular and widely known than either of these ideas are proposals for universal background checks. As it stands, licensed gun dealers must conduct background checks before making a sale, but other sellers at gun shows and elsewhere don't have to.In fact, Arizona's senators presented an eyebrow raising contrast when asked about what the body could do following this latest massacre.But Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was cautious, saying "I don’t think the D.C.
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