Gun control loses political luster

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: March 11, 2001| Author: JAMES DAO | Copyright information

Gun control loses political luster

Unlike in the past, recent school shootings fail to spur calls for change

By JAMES DAO

New York Times

Sunday, March 11, 2001

Washington -- In the days after shootings at schools in California and Pennsylvania last week, the new reality of gun control politics became starkly clear.

Unlike in 1999, when Democrats reacted almost immediately to the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado with demands for tough new g...

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