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George Skelton: No one becomes a mass shooter without a mass-shooting gun

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Look, it's really simple: Mass shootings will continue in this country until we finally ban mass-shooting weapons.

The more bullets a gun can fire rapidly, the more people will die.

Pretty basic stuff. We don't need to twist elementary logic into a contortion.

Anyone who doesn't understand this is probably a firearms addict in denial.

Let's be clear: I'm not anti-gun. I grew up shooting, have owned firearms all my life and enjoyed them. I'm pro-common sense.

There's absolutely no reason to possess a semiautomatic, military-style

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