REASONABLE PEOPLE HOPED that after the massacre in 2012 of the twenty first graders and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the delirium might begin to break. The killer’s mother, who homeschooled him, “had a survivalist philosophy, which is why she was stockpiling guns,” according to her sister-in-law. The stockpile consisted of seven firearms, including the rifle with which her son murdered her. To murder the children and teachers, he used her semiautomatic “modern sporting rifle”—that’s the term preferred by the national gun industry trade association,
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