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America’s Gun Plague

Hatred alone is not an American phenomenon—easy access to deadly weapons is.
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Was it one of ours? Or one of theirs?

That’s the question that flashes through American minds after a mass shooting. Was the alleged killer a jihadi, like in Orlando in 2016? A left-wing extremist, like the shooter who attacked ? A vegan ? Or, as apparently was the case yesterday in Buffalo, New York, a white supremacist who believed in the “great replacement” theory?

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