Jun 16, 2016
The United States has been pummeled by gun violence since the assault weapons ban expired in 2004. That year, the first mass shooting — four adults dead in Columbus, Ohio — didn’t occur until December. Already in 2016, 58 lives have been claimed by such massacres. One class of gun, the AR-15-style, has largely made it possible. Here’s why.
The Boston Globe is making a strong editorial statement by literally wrapping its newspaper in a gun safety message calling for a ban on semiautomatic assault weapons.
