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“If there is one point in the gun control debate about which opponents are likely to agree, it is this: There is too much violent crime in the United States, and guns are too often involved in such crimes.”
—-Earl R. Kruschke, author of Gun Control: A Reference Handbook
“The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963,” write Jan E. Dizard, Robert Merril Muth, and Stephen P. Andrews Jr. in the introduction to Guns in America: A Reader, “set off a national debate over the place of firearms in our society that has continued, virtually unabated, to the present.” Prior to Kennedy’s death, firearms were commonly sold over-the-counter and through mail-order catalogs to almost any adult who wanted them. Then, in part because of the public outcry after Kennedy’s assassination, Congress passed the Gun Control Act...
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