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The violence comes home again

In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, as in the wake of all the high-profile mass shootings that preceded it, the big question looms: Why?

John Whitehead puts the question this way: "What is it about America that makes violence our nation's calling card?"

This is the enormous question -- you might call it the $700 billion question, which is the size of the 2018 military budget recently approved by the Senate -- that most media and law enforcement personnel do not ask or acknowledge, as they search for clues about the motive behind Stephen Paddock's

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