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Oh, dear.  Reading comprehension is a problem for you.  Did you make it all the way down to the end of the article or did you stop midway?  Just wondering but based on your posts I already know the answer ... sigh.[/quote]

Here's the end of the article:

[i]The United States is one of only three countries, along with Mexico and Guatemala, that begin with the opposite assumption: that people have an inherent right to own guns.

The main reason American regulation of gun ownership is so weak may be the fact that the trade-offs are simply given a different weight in the United States than they are anywhere else.

After Britain had a mass shooting in 1987, the country instituted strict gun control laws. So did Australia after a 1996 shooting. But the United States has repeatedly faced the same calculus and determined that relatively unregulated gun ownership is worth the cost to society.

That choice, more than any statistic or regulation, is what most sets the United States apart.

“In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate,” Dan Hodges, a British journalist, wrote in a post on Twitter two years ago, referring to the 2012 attack that killed 20 young students at an elementary school in Connecticut. “Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.”[/i]

This doesn't say that it's not guns. This says that it's guns, but we in the US don't want to do anything about it. It's time to change that.[/quote]

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