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On gun violence, Americans need to agree on the question before figuring out solutions
Black Americans are targeted by a racist mass murderer in New York. Children are targeted in a senseless slaughter at an elementary school in Texas. Parade goers in Illinois are picked off by a rooftop sniper.
And politicians get defensive about … it even being a problem.
An exchange between U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and two reporters after the recent Uvalde Elementary School massacre was instructive. The reporters ask why America is the only country that faces this kind of epidemic.
Cruz gets mad.
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2022/08/08/on-gun-violence-americans-need-to-agree-on-the-question-before-figuring-out-solutions/