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Mass Shootings and Assault Weapons

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UPDATE: This post has been updated to include the El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH shootings that occurred over the 24-hour period on August 3rd and 4th, 2019.  In his book “Rampage Nation” Louis Klarevas of the University of Massachusetts at Boston notes that gun massacres (defined as a shooting incident in which six or more people are shot and killed) fell

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Think Tennesseans are hopelessly divided on gun rights? Think again.

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  New MTSU poll of Tennessee voters reveals broad support for common sense gun law reforms A new cross-state poll by researchers at MTSU revealed that although 69% of Tennesseans think it is more important to “protect the right to own guns” than to “control gun ownership” (23%), there is overwhelming and broad support for gun law reforms such as

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