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Joe Biden and the Gun-Control Debate : The New Yorker

,,,Still, it was a reminder of the reality looming over these task-force meetings, and whatever comes after them. Given recent history, if the coming legislative debate over gun control takes more than a few months, it would be a minor miracle if it were not at some point colored by yet another mass shooting. Since 1982, there have been sixty-two mass murders in the United States. During that thirty-year period, there have been only three times—1983, 1985, and 2002—when the country made it from January 1st to December 31st without seeing such an incident. Last year, there were seven...