(John Locher/AP)The political positions taken up after the Las Vegas massacre are too familiar. Democratic leaders, such as U.S. senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), immediately called for new gun control measures. That hasn't stopped the rallying cry for “common-sense gun control.” But, as Rosenberg pointed out, we don't know what that looks like. [Read Jimmy Kimmel's emotional, scathing monologue about gun control after the Las Vegas shooting]Everyone agrees the Las Vegas shooting was a tragedy. “It's just so political.”Jay Dickey was a Republican congressman from Arkansas who, in the mid-1990s, led the effort to stop the CDC's gun violence research.

Source: Washington Post October 04, 2017 11:03 UTC