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A significant part of the issue here in the US is semantics.
For many years, some people have wanted to have the "gun control" debate and others have been willing to have a "gun violence" conversation.
What started within the first days after Newtown was "gun violence" - but few want to deal with the underlying issues of the "violence" part of it. So when Gabby Giffords urges people to "do something" they will -- even if it's wrong. Especially if it's wrong.
If this nation truly wanted a gun violence debate we wouldn't be talking about the children of Newtown; we'd be talking about the children of Chicago -- far more of whom were killed by guns in 2012 than in Newtown. We'd be talking about all gun violence, not the unpreventable mass murders.
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