The slaughter in Las Vegas is all too familiar, yet Americans refuse to stop it
The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times website on Monday, Oct. 2:
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The nation awakened Monday morning to learn that once again a man - and it's almost always a man - has committed what appears to be the most American of acts, using military-style firearms to kill a staggering number of people. Not in self-defense, not in the heat of battle, but in pursuit of some inchoate goal. Police say 64-year-old Stephen Paddock of
