Commentary: Semiautomatic guns make shootings deadlier
by Benjamin Bahney, Los Angeles Times
Nov 19, 2018
2 minutes
Recent history shows that mass killings in the U.S. don't follow a single script.
But there is one common element shared by many of these tragedies: legal access to semiautomatic guns.
Domestic terrorists such as the mass shooters in Thousand Oaks, Pittsburgh and Parkland, Fla., come from different demographic backgrounds and have different characteristics. Few reforms are likely to stop them all.
But all three killers used
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