News Items – June 3, 2022

When a teenager wants a semiautomatic rifle, that’s enough of a red flagWashington PostA pair of mass shootings perpetrated by disturbed young gunmen — one in Buffalo, the other in Uvalde, Tex. — come in haunting succession. The repetition, the needless loss of life, the political gridlock easily give way to an exasperation bordering on fatalism — a feeling that nothing can be done. Rampage homicides are rare, accounting for a relatively small fraction of overall gun hom