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Studying gun violence is the only way to figure out how to stop it – but we don't

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imageA protest outside the National Shooting Sports Foundation in Newtown, Connecticut, March 28 2013. Michelle McLoughlin/Reuters

It seems that not a week passes without a new report of a mass shooting in the United States.

The gun epidemic, long simmering, has in the past few weeks seemed to reach a new phase in the public discourse. The shootings in...

Read more: Studying gun violence is the only way to figure out how to stop it – but we don't

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