Analysis: Senate vote shows gun-control advocates the size of challenge
By Samuel P. Jacobs NEW YORK (Reuters) – In the end, nothing could persuade enough U. S. senators to approve the most significant gun legislation in two decades: Not the carnage from Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six adults were massacred by a gunman in December, igniting a national debate on gun control. Not the impassioned pleas of Newtown survivors’ families, whose calls for expanded background checks for gun buyers so moved a pro-gun senator from West Virginia that he became their advocate. . . .
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