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The Guns of Spring - Timothy Egan Blog - NYTimes.com

If it was peanut butter or pistachio nuts taking down people by the dozens every week, we’d be all over it. Witness the recent recalls. But Glocks and AKs — can’t touch ‘em. So we’re awash in guns: 280 million.

I'm stunned and flummoxed by America's attitude to guns.

Following the Port Arthur massacre (Australia) and John Howard's exceptional and welcomed legislative response, I have to ask why America can't do the same.

I expect Mr Egan's well made points will be attacked and vilified by the all powerful gun lobby...

Bam, bam, bam. Three dead in Pittsburgh, cops, all of them, murdered by a man with an AK-47 who thought President Obama was going to take away his guns.