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A police officer walks down Central Avenue in Highland Park, Ill., following the July 4 massacre. Has our nation responded to mass shootings in a meaningful way to prevent them? No, it has not.. But he’s 2 years old and can’t yet comprehend the magnitude of what he’s lost — for the rest of his life.
Maybe by then our national epidemic of mass shootings — like the one that killed his parents and five other people, and wounded two dozen more July 4 — will be a rare horror. Maybe by the time Aiden is old enough to understand what happened, the type of high-powered weaponry used in these killings will be less accessible. But that hope presumes that most Americans longing for significant gun reform will elect legislators who will enforce, not resist, their desire for greater gun safety.
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