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The American public has power over the gun business – why doesn't it use it?

  • Written by Brian DeLay, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
Attendees attend a candlelight vigil for the victims of a shooting at a Florida school.AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

As teenagers in Parkland, Florida, dressed for the funerals of their friends – the latest victims of a mass shooting in the U.S. – weary outrage poured forth on social media and in op-eds across the country. Once again,...

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