Las Vegas Sun

April 18, 2024

Sales associate Mike Conway, right, shows Paul Angulo a semiautomatic rifle Dec. 9, 2015, at Bullseye Sport gun shop in Riverside, Calif. The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in which a mentally disturbed man killed 26 children and teachers galvanized calls across the nation for tighter gun controls. But in the three years since, many states have moved in the opposite direction, embracing the National Rifle Association’s response that more “good guys with guns” are what’s needed to limit the carnage of mass shootings.

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Sales associate Mike Conway, right, shows Paul Angulo a semiautomatic rifle Dec. 9, 2015, at Bullseye Sport gun shop in Riverside, Calif. The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in which a mentally disturbed man killed 26 children and teachers galvanized calls across the nation for tighter gun controls. But in the three years since, many states have moved in the opposite direction, embracing the National Rifle Association’s response that more “good guys with guns” are what’s needed to limit the carnage of mass shootings.