Another mass shooting, a nation on tenterhooks
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Sep 11, 2019
2 minutes
In 1879, on the road leading into Dodge City, there stood a sign. "The Carrying of Fire Arms Strictly Prohibited," it said.
As recounted in the book "Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America" by Adam Winkler, the gun control ordinance was the first law passed when the city was organized in 1873. Nor was Dodge unique. Many other western towns,
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