The writer is a contributing columnist, based in Chicago
US gun owners: they may not always be who you think they are. And that could affect what can — and cannot — be done to stop America’s shooting spree.
After several months in which one mass shooting has seemed to stumble over the heels of the next in America, I found myself developing a mental picture from the headlines of those who buy the semi-automatic weapons that are mostly used in the attacks: young, male, mostly white. Just like the shooter charged with killing seven people at the Highland Park July 4 parade, on the doorstep of the town where I live in the northern suburbs of Chicago.
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