Think the Charleston shooting will lead to new gun control laws? It won’t.

Wednesday’s mass killing of nine people in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., by a lone gunman shocks the conscience of any sane person. … Yet the very fact of another awful act of gun violence helps to explain why nothing will change.

For nearly a century, changes in gun laws have been keyed to two sets of events: gun-related violence and assassinations. CONT.

Robert Spitzer (SUNY Cortland), Washington Post

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