By Marc Fisher October 4 at 7:00 AM
A shooter kills, the nation mourns, and immediately, both sides in the debate over guns fall into a well-worn pattern: Gun-control proponents rally their supporters, pressing lawmakers to tighten regulations. Gun rights advocates hang back, waiting for the public’s sorrow and outrage to subside. And nothing further happens, until the next horrific act fuels the next spin of the cycle.
This is what happened after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, after the Sandy Hook elementary school killings in Newtown, after the massacre at Virginia Tech. This is, according to gun rights activists, what will unfold in the aftermath of the killing of at least 58 people at a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
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