Editorial: Trump's cynical response to mass shootings falls far short of what's needed to protect the US
by Los Angeles Times
Aug 05, 2019
3 minutes
After a weekend of numbing carnage - at least 30 dead and more than 50 injured in mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, - President Trump stepped forward Monday morning with a tweet calling for a bilateral embrace of "strong background checks," whatever that means, and "perhaps marrying this legislation with desperately needed immigration reform."
So in the space of a single tweet the president called for laughably light legislative changes - neither gunman would likely have
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