How many have to die before U.S. wakes up to gun insanity?

The latest mass shooting in Las Vegas has renewed calls for gun control legislation in the United States.

Alleged Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock had about 20 firearms in his Mandalay Bay hotel room, according to news reports. Photograph courtesy of Prayitno

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

October 4, 2017

OTTAWA—What can you say about a country where there’s a hierarchy of mass shootings that allows everyone to state that the incident in Las Vegas was the worst in modern American history? Or how a 64-year-old would-be mass murderer can keep 20 firearms in his hotel room for four days without any...

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