After Mass Shootings, Guns are Still the Problem

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The tragic mass shootings over the weekend in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, in which 31 people were killed and scores wounded, have left the nation reeling. How did we get to this point? We’ve asked that question so many times but with no result. More important now is determining how we get out of this.

There have been 253 mass shootings so far in 2019, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Whenever these attacks occur, we hear the expected platitudes, but these thoughts and prayers are uttered so often they start to lose meaning.

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Erroll G. Southers, a former FBI special agent, is a professor of national and homeland security at the University of Southern California's Sol Price School of Public Policy, director of its Safe Communities Institute, and director of Homegrown Violent Extremism Studies. Follow him on Twitter