WHERE AMERICA STAN DS ON GUNS Americans WhO say. The right tO own guns is essential tO their personalfreedom GUN OWNERS favor of . ・ NON GUN OWNERS Preventing people with mental illnesses from purchasing guns Requiring background checks fO 「 private sales and at gun shows 77 % GUN OWNERS 74 % 35 % ・ OWNERS 89 % 89 % 87 % 84 % Gun laws should be more strict than they are tOday 0 62 % . NON ・ GUN OWNERS GUN OWNERS Further restrictions on g gun sales would result in fewer mass shootings Barring gun purchases by people on no-fly or watch lists Creating a federal government database tO track all gun sales 54 % Banning assault-style weapons 48 % 82 % 80 % 77 % Banning high-capacity magazines that hO more than 10 rounds Of ammunition GUN OWNERS 29 % 0 NON GUN OWNERS 44 % 50 40 % KILLED 爪」 URED 74 % ・ 80 MORE FREQUENT, MORE DEADLY TotaI mass shooting deaths and injuries by year, highlighting the most fatalincidents 60 32 。… 58 。… LAS VEGAS Stephen Paddock fires on a n outdoo 「 country music festival in Las Vegas from the 32nd floor of a nearby hOtel. More than 500 surVlVOrs are in. 」 ured as a result Of gun wounds or getting trampled while trying tO escape. 49 。… ORLANDO Omar Mateen kill s patrons at a gay nightclub in 日 0 ⅱ da. After a hostage standoff he is killed by a SWAT team. 21 。 SAN YSIDRO 」 ames OIiver Huberty opens fire at a CaIifornia McDonaId's. He is killed by a police sharpshooter. 47 23 。… KILLEEN then shoots customers Cafeteria in Texas, drives intO a Luby's George Hennard VIRGINIA TECH Student Cho Seung-Hui kills classmates in a BIacksburg dorm and classroom building, then kills himself. 98 2000 90 27 。… SANDY HOOK Adam Lanza kills his mother, then 20 children, six adults and himself at a Connecticut elementary school. 83 and himself. 54 1990 27 TOTAL 11 1982 135 2010 615 600 500 40() 300 200 0 100 .1985 1995 14 : 2005 2015 2017 NOTE: A MASS SHOOTING INVOLVES FOUR OR MORE DEATHS ( 1982 ・ 2012 ) OR THREE OR MORE DEATHS ( 2013 ・ 2017 ) FROM SHOOTING INCIDENTS THAT PUBLIC PLACES. THE FEDERAL DE 日 NITION WAS CHANGED TO THREE DEATHS 2013. FEDERAL ASSAULT-WEAPONS BAN ENACTED 1994 , EXPIRED 2004 SOURCES: PEW RESEARCH,JUNE 2017 : MASS SHOOTING 日 GURES ADAPTED FROM MOTHER 」 ONES 23
Nation AFTER THE MASSACRE WILL THE DEADLIEST MASS SHOOTING 爪 MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY CHANGE THE DEBATE OVER GUN RIGHTS? BY PHILIP E [ リ 0 訂 , HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS AND CHARLOTTE ALTER/LAS VEGAS PHOTOGRAPH BY MATT STUART FOR TIME
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0 e ー the roar Of the guitar, The rapid を叩 pop 叩 exploded around Doris Huser, 29. She and her the g び e erupted. At first 8-year-old daughter had been in the bath- room, but when the shooting began, they the CO び 0 y - m 5i0 fans pushed back into the crowd, toward the sound ofthe bullets, in search ofHuser's at the Route 91 Harvest 5-year-01d son and her developmentally disabled sister. They could feel the bul- FestivaIi 0 Las Vegas lets pinging 0 圧 the concession stands, ricocheting Off the pavement around thought the loudspeakers them. About 50 yards away, Tyler Reeve, a 36-year-01d country artist and song- were malfunctioning 0 ー writer, dove intO a production trailer with that the pyrotechnics five friends and lay on the floor as hun- dreds of rounds rang out. "lt was like a ad gone awry. But as war zone; ” he says. Piles Of bOdies were everywhere. B100d collected ⅲ pools. the bodies crumpled, the Everyone was screaming. Melissa Bayer, who had just le 仕 a nearby Hooters, wit- crowd began tO grasp the nessed the mayhem 仕 om a hundred yards away. This a mass shooting, she thought. hO ″ 0 ー that was び nf01d ⅲ This is what it looks like. 20 TIME October 16 , 2017 PREVIOUS PAGES: MAGNUM; T 工 IS PAGE: AP/S 工 UTTERSTOCK
Democratic leader Nancy PeIosi is push- ing for a Select Committee on Gun ViO- lence, a move that may leave Republicans red-faced when they oppose it. Others are considering hOW tO wrangle Republicans t0 〕 0 ⅲ previous attempts t0 finally fund the Centers for Disease Control and pre- vention programs tO figure out just hOW much of a public-health risk guns pose. And those lobbying for tighter controls on guns say they'd rather focus on the big, stalled fights than the ones that might make a difference on the margins. "The instances Ofgun violence in thiS country using fully automatic weapons or weap- ons approximating fully automatic fire are a SI れ a11 minority Ofthe gun violence; ” says Billy Rosen, deputy legal director at Everytown for Gun Safety. Some are hoping for help 仕 om an un- likely quarter: President Trump. Sen- ate minority leader Chuck Schumer tried to find some daylight between Trump and the NRA, which spent a re- cord $ 30 million on his campaign against Hillary Clinton. "Before he was a candi- date and marched in lockstep with the NRA,: ” Schumer said, "Donald Trump expressed very a reasonable position on gun control. ” ln a way, Trump does remain the big- gest unknown. He became the first Presi- dent tO address the NRA's convention in 34 years, in April, but in 2000 he wrote, "l support the ban on assault weapons, and I support a slightly longer waiting pe- riod to purchase a gun. ” And the Presi- dent does pride himself on being a deal- maker. West Wing aides worried that a single segment on cable television, or a moment in Trump's visit tO Las Vegas on Oct. 4 , might provoke an impulsive state- ment with the power tO reshape the gun- rights debate in America. But the presi- dent stayed on message when asked about gun control as he ViSited survivors at University Medical Center in Las Vegas. "We're not going to talk about that today; ” he said. Former White House strategist Stephen Bannon tried t0 quash talk 0f such an unlikely deal telling Axios that the blowback for any Trump surprise on gun control would destroy the President's governing coalition. Bannon is probably right that Trump won't flip, because the cornerstone Of this debate, after all, isn't really about guns. lt's about something IT'S ALWAYS MEN BY 」ル日リ PO Ⅵ 0 Another mass shooting in America, another round Of questions. Was the shooter a terrorist or a lone WO げ ? (Read: "Was he Muslim?") Did he have a political agenda? Was he mentally Ⅲ ? Why would someone dO this? One question we never ask: Was the shooter a man? The answer iS always the same. Ofthe 134 mass shooters who have preyed on Americans since 1966 , three have been women, making mass shooting a 98 % male enterprise. Ninety percent of murderers are men—firearms are used in close to 70 % of homicides. Plenty has been written aboutthe relationship between masculinity and guns: hOW gunmakers centeradvertising campaigns on macho status, hOW a startlingly high proportion Of mass shooters have a history ofabusing women, hOW more than half Of mass shootings involve a man killing ()r trying tO kill) an intimate, taking Others out along with her. Butthe reality Of American men and gun violence iS as much about a hypermasculine fetishization Of murdertoys as it is abouttribalidentity, a deepening identification ofselfand clan that radicalizes marginal views and magnifies personal entitlement and social distrust. ThiS iS a communal masculine ideology, not an individual one. There is no lone WO げ . There is a rabid WO げ pack. Almost half ofthe world's civilian-owned guns are in the hands ofAmericans. But those guns are not distributed equally. Many are hoarded by "super-owners," a group Of mostly male extremists whO make upjust 3 % Ofthe adult'population but own an average Of 17 guns apiece. Women are increasingly buying handguns fO 「 protec- tion, and that seems tO be their actual motivation: they own a single gun, and they keep it in case Of an emergency (one sus- pects that the imagined assailant they are protecting themselves from is a man). MaIe gun owners are more likely tO bind their recreationallives and identities tO guns and "gun culture," according tO Pew: they hunt, go shooting, watch gun イ elated shows on TV and seek out more gun-related recreation and information. ThiS intersects with Other aspects Of identity: 95 % Of conservative Republican gun owners agree that "the right tO own guns is essentialto their own sense Of freedom. ” White men are much more likely tO own guns than non-whites, and the super-owners amassing arsenals Of weapons are particularly likely tO be white, male and conservative. Among gun hoarders—those whO own atleast five guns—almost half say being a gun owner is "very important" tO their identity. Being friends with Other gun owners 引 SO increases the probability that a person will tie their identity tO gun ownership, and gun owners tend tO socialize with Other gun owners: 54 % Of men whO own guns say all 0 「 most oftheir friends own guns t00. 旧 Other words, there is less a broad American fixation with guns than there is a subculture Of mostly white, mostly male, mostly conservative gun obsessives. Within this group, gun ownership is as much a hObby and an effort at self-defense as it is a way tO forge an identity and bond with a like-minded community. The gun is simply the (extremely literal) external symbol Of the underlying ideology: white male power comes through physical domination. These are the same men we have been hearing a lOt about lately—angry and displaced white men. From their slipping status comes fear,. What a feeling, then, tO hO 旧 a gun—especially if you feel entitled tO dominance but see your Other channels for it waning. There is no greater power than the ability tO kill, a power made SO easy that a man doesn't have tO train or build physical strength 0 「 think creatively 0 「 work for it; he merely has tO curl a fingertip and POP POP POP ・ The fear that drives the demand for more guns and renewed male authority iS, Of course, irrational. The vast majority Of people never need a gun for protection (the presence Of a gun in the house makes you more vulnerableto deadlyviolence). Violent crime in the U. S. has been decliningfor years. Women, immigrants and people Of colorare dOing betterthan in the past, but we are not anywhere close tO overtaking the white male grip on power. This reality-based narrative, though, does not serve the interests Of the wealthy few whO benefit colossally from one party's one-percent benevolence, or the companies that make astounding sums when credulous citizens are distracted intO looking the Other way.lt makes political and economic sense tO encourage conservative white gun-owning men tO double down on their identities by giving them advocates in Congress and their own set Of facts.lt certainly makes financial sense forgun manufacturers, WhiCh thrive on selling consumers multiple firearms and accessories. Why dO you need more than one gun? "Why dO you need more than one pair ofshoes?" Philip van Cleave, president ofthe Virginia Citizens Defense League, asked, in the Guardian. 仕 is undeniable that more guns mean more gun deaths. But we choose tO let this ecosystem thrive, even as we bleed out. We comfort ourselves with vapidities about "lone wolves," these unpredictable animals whose behavior cannot be restrained or tamed. HOW many Of them have tO strike before we realize there's a whOle pack out there, some ofthem preying but 訓 ofthem eating their fill, while the rest Of us cower? FilipoviC is an attorney and writer
Essay The Pursuit Of Happy-ish The tragedies Of 2017 will test the bonds that connect us, now and for years tO come By Susanna Schrobsdorff IF YOU COULD SEE GRIEF ONA MAP, THERE WOULD BE RINGS ofanguish radiating from whole regions ofthe U. S. right now,. From Texas to FIorida to Puerto Rico and Las Vegas, the hurt would expand with each person affected to the people they're connected with in all parts Ofthe country. NO state would remain untouched by the events Of2017. The magnitude of the suffering over the past few months is unfathomable tO those whO haven't spent time ⅲ a war zone or ln countries where nature's most brutal assaults are even more frequent. Houston and Florida are still reeling from sequential hurricanes. PuertO RiCO hasn't gotten tO its feet in the wake 0f Maria. The people 0f Char10ttesviIIe, Va. watched hate march intO town and take one oftheir own— an eve nt from which they 're still re covering. NOW a man has hauled a cache ofweapons into a hotel room in Las Vegas and unleashed a hailstorm 0f death on concertgoers below, killing dozens and wounding hundreds. We have run out Of adjectives for these kinds of events. Last year's deadliest mass shooting in American history has been overtaken by this year's deadliest mass shooting in American history. The last set Of catastrophic hurricanes has been eclipsed by this year's set Of catastrophic hurricanes. These tragedies are accumulating SO fast, we forget that many Ofthe ramifications arejust starting tO unfurl. The hospital staffmembers, first responders and brave samaritans in Las Vegas will have t0 le arn to live with the horror of what they've seen. Puert0 Rico's children may lose a whole school year; ifwe're having trouble getting them food and water, it will be even longer before they're back in class. And it's clear that the most vulnerable ofthose hit by the storms ⅲ Texas and FIorida will struggle economically for years. ONE WONDERS IF IT'S POSSIBLE for us tO expand our hearts and minds tO embrace this level Of hurt and destruction— a trail ofstricken families and communities that stretches from the Gulfto the Atlantic and parts in between. lt must be said that the trail ofkindness and courage reachesjust as far. But I worry that our capacity for empathy has been worn thin and that our attention spans are now SO tweet-size that we won't be able tO focus long enough on any one ofthese tragedies tO provide long-term help. We talk a lot about "the resistance ” in this battered country Of ours, but the most important thing we need tO resist now might be the urge tO let the next outrage or tragedy erase the images 0f those whO are still suffering. lfl were religious, l'd know where t0100k t0 find guidance on how △ not tO lose touch with the feeling Of connection I had with all those families whose suffering we ve seen SO intimately. Their lives and homes and hearts have been broken open on our screens; their faces should be etched in our consciousness. But that human link is diluted daily by the torrent of news, insults and scandals. The question now is whether we're capable Of a sustained response once the TV drama stops. AND WHERE DO WE START? DO you fight for aid tO rebuild every crushed community first, or put your efforts intO something that might mitigate the damage next time? ()e know there will be more once- in- a-lifetime flOOds and hurric anes and shootings. ) Prevention iS tough When we agree on the causes ofthese tragedies. lt seems pretty obvious tO me that we shouldn't have laws that allow almost anyone t0 buy a machine gun and unlimited ammunitio n. But that notion iS far from universal. We could focus on climate SCience and hOW tO StOP the oceans from warming SO quickly, but there again, there will be disagreement. If all we can agree on is strengthening our ability tO respond tO disasters, then O. K. , let's dO that: beefup emergency protocols and trauma centers, build sea walls and houses that can better withstand the inevitable. But just doing that feels like giving up, which would be its own tragedy ・ Maybe the answer is for each Ofus tO choose one thing t0 fix and not let go. Take a tiny piece 0fa larger disaster and make it your responsibility, whether it means agitating for funding in Washington or sending a holiday package to a child wh0 lost their home or a parent wh0 lost their child. And not just this year, but next year tOO and the year after. Because that's what it's going tO take tO heal a nation. 一トエ 0 」 Z3 コ 9 一 HOOH コ 303 Å8 NO 一トくエト snn ョ ロ 51
city best known for bachelorette parties, professional conferences and boys' week- ends away. And it wasn't just the city's wide-open attitude that may have made it an i nviting target. The glitzy b oulevard is a symbOl Of our culture Of decadence: there's a reason that the lslamic State re- leased a 44-minute propaganda video ⅲ May calling for supporters t0 conduct at- tacks the re. But it is also now a place that exemplifies an American attribute, limited not just tO Nevada: resigned resilience. At 8 : 30 a. m. on Oct. 3 , less than 36 hours after the worst mass shooting in modern history began upstairs, guests at the Mandalay Bay were back on the A れ 10 れ ShieldS 0 W0n10 れ工 the threat ofgunfire casino floor. The SlOt machines were humming. Two poker tables were in んⅡ swing. Racing fans filled the sports b00k. lt was hard tO tell whether the reaction came from strength or acquiescence. But there it was: another roll Of the dice, another pull 0f the lever. —With reporting by SEAN GREGORY/ NEW YORK; 0 れ d TESSA BERENSON, NASH JENKINS, ZEKE J. MILLER 0 れ d MAYA RHODAN/ WASHINGTON 27
If their initial reaction to the opening salvos at 10 : 08 p. m. on Sunday, Oct. 1 had been confusion, the 22 , 000 concertgoers spent the next nine tO 11 minutes Of pro- tracted gunfire trapped in a nightmare that, for so many Americans, has some- how become grimly familiar: the shaky cell-phone fo otage of carnage , the photo- graphs Of innocent victims in the news- paper, the profiles ofhorror and heroism. There was the 48-year-01d woman who heard her husband, a father of four, C01- lapse on the asphalt next to her, and the young man wh0 sprinted alongside his eight-months'-pregnant wife, running for their lives. There was the 30-year-oId woman wh0 lay on top 0fher 21-year-01d brother to protect him from the hail of bullets, "because he has big goals in life. ” But when the shooting ended, this ter- ror would be in a class apart. Stephen Pad- dock, 64 , who smashed the windows of his 32nd-floor Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino suite and trained an assault-style semiautomatic weapon on the helpless souls four football fields away, broke an- Other dismal record for American murder. At least 58 dead, at least 527 wounded, by a man whO, for no immediately discern- ible reason, lugged an arsenal 0f23 weap- ons intO his high-roller suite and then rained ofhundreds upon hundreds ofbul- lets into a tightly packe d crowd. Twelve ofhis high-powered rifles were modified with legal parts that made them function like automatic weapons, capable Of un- leashing nine rounds per second, a rate offire rarely seen offthe field ofwar. The military-grade rounds, fired from what seemed tO be large-capacity magazines, produced so much gun smoke they set 0ff the detectors in Paddock's suite. Year after year, mass shootings have broken record after record for casualties. From a university in Virginia tO a gay dance club in Orlando, the body count has increased, creating an image Of an unstoppable national slaughter. High- profile battles over background checks and gun-show loopholes have stalled on Capit01 Hill, even as gun-rights advocates introduce new provisions tO weaken the Drapes b 卍 ow om the 32 れ d 00r hotel suite 砒 Ma d Ba. 易 where the ShOOter t00 た aim at concertgoers existing constraints. But it's not an unfixable problem. New laws could at least limit the carnage when a murderer opens up on a crowd. we have decided that grenade launchers should not be widely available; why should we not say the same for devices that allow bullets to be fired at a rate of more than 400 rounds per minute? Nor is the politi- cal divide as unbridgeable as it appears. The NationaI Rifle Association (NRA) and its allies are not all-powerful: the lobby relies 0 Ⅱ the intensity Of a small cadre Of fervent supporters, and it does lose races, such as last year's campaign tO re- place Senator Harry Reid 0fNevada. The majority Of gun owners believe in some form of regulation, and several Republi- can Senators have suggested they are open tO compromlse. The challenge in bringing change is that the debate over gun rights isn't re- ally about guns at all. lt's about what they represent: cherished freedoms, a rever- ence for independence. The guns are a re- Jection ofpolitical correctness that creeps intO everything. Even the most incremen- tal move tO constrain deadly weaponry seems tO many Americans tO cut against their rights. ln the blood-soaked scene on the Vegas Strip, those deeply held be- liefs collide with our collective horror. The question now, as the victims try tO make sense Of slaughter on a military scale, is where do we draw the line? IF THAT IS a political question, it is has proven a confounding one. There are an estimated 265 million guns in the U. S. , ac- cording tO one study from Harvard and Northeastern universities—・ greater than the tOtal number ofvotes cast in last year's presidential election. They are owned by 30 % ofthe adult population. That's not a constituency tO be dismissed. But not all gun owners are against all forms Of gun control. A Quinnipiac University poll ⅲ June 2017 showed 94 % ofvoters support background checks for all gun buyers— including 93 % 0fRepublicans. The same poll found that a majority, 57 % , believed guns are t00 easy t0 buy, and only 35 % thought more people carrying guns would make Americans safer. A Pew survey Of gun owners found that almost 30 % 0f them support stricter gun laws. "There's a complete disconnect; ” said Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat. UN ー H ー B E. UNSPEAKABLEE THE LANGUAGE OF TRAGEDY BY KATY STEINMETZ As the country reacted tO the shooting, many people invoked words that we turn towhen experience has slipped the bonds Of description, when language seems tO Offer us merethimbles tO emptya well. A photographeratthe scene said the car- nage and chaos was "incomparable" nothing could be relative. The shooter's brothersaid he was "completelydumb- founded," a word that means he felt desti- tute Ofthe facultyofspeech. Many people attempting tO find something meaningful tO say called the event "unspeakable. " Others said, 爿 have nowords. President Trump described the event by its indescribable nature t00 , saying we "cannotfathom" the feelings Ofthe 59 families whO lost a parent, a child, a brother 0 「 a sister. TO fathom something, in the oldest sense, is tO encircle it with extended arms. You cannot putyour arms around the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, especially while the hospitals are still full. You cannot put your arms around such IOSS and confusion. Merriam-Webster editor atlarge Peter SokoIowski says the online dictionary saw a spike in searches for surreal, which means "marked by the intense irrational reality Of a dream. " AS Sokolowski has said, a word that fits a feeling can bring "some kind Of orderto somebody's life in that moment. " Surreal suggests that the event doesn't abide by logic. Searchingforwords tO describe an eventwhere SO many losttheir lives iS in some ways no different from finding words fO 「 a card you send tO someone WhO has justlost a parent orchild. There are few good words for that either, because the linear order ofletters and sentences iS a cheap representation Of the messy VOid that hurts SO much and remains SO long after a person is gone. Tryingto sum it up and getting it wrong can be an insult tO the grief, SO we describe it by what it isn't: clear, comprehensible, somethingthat can be summed up. By the time police arrived at the Las Vegas shooter's hotelroom, he was already dead from an apparent suicide. 旧 remarks on Oct. 2 , Trump described the shooter by what he had done, saying he had committed "an act Of pure evil." Even that meaning bOiIs down tO what it is not: the first definition Of evil is the "antithesis Of good.
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ー 0 VEGAS WITH し OV き FROM ORLANDO BY RICARDO 」 . NEGRON-ALMODOVAR Dear Las Vegas, You now belong tO a club where membership is unwanted. The eyes Ofthe world are upon you, but not because ofyour shining spectacles Of lights and entertainment; no, the reason is fartoo bleak. Your sister cities, fellow members Of the unsolicited club, know what you are going through. We see you. We feelfor you. We are here foryou. Many will come tO your aid in this desperate time Of need. You will experience insurmountable amounts OfIove and strength tO push on. Many will 引 so come forthe show, and once deadlines are met and assignments completed, they will go on tO the next Story. Butforyou, this is not a scene that ends when the cameras roll out. Building communitywill be the keytO your healing process. Debates will ignite. Theories will be rebutted. Division will come tO make its claim. Butyou mustn'twaiver,. You are tougherthan this and you have tO focus—right now—on providing ways SO that those whO have been directly affected find their road tO recovery. You will be overwhelmed, but please be patient. SO many needs will arise, and not everyone will be readyto deal with their own personal situations at once, which is whythere must be a system in place not only tO address the initial situation but 引 SO forthe long run.lt is imperative that no one falls through the cracks in these moments of hardship that have now become far t00 common. Barely overa yearago, the OrIando community suffered from the worst crime in American history againstthe LGBTQ + and Latinx community. We suffered, yes. But we a 0 organized, and we let the world know that united we were stronger. We willjoin you through the darkness, and we will stand with you 訓 the way. Negron-Almodovaris a survivor Ofthe Pulse nightclub tragedywho works tO create safe spaces for the LGBTQ + and Latinx community in CentraI FIorida So why are measures like closing background-check loophole s and limit- ing high-c 叩 acity magazines not already law? lt's partly because a small but ⅲ - tense group Of gun-rights advocates op- pose them. A paltry 3 % 0f households own half of all 0f the guns in America, and they vote. lt is they wh0 argue most vocally that if existing gun-control laws can't stop mass shootings, why would new laws be any better? Change might make people feel good, this argument goes, but it wouldn't protect Americans. "Short ofa total ban on firearms, nothing being suggested would have st0Pljed this kind 0f shooting," says Dudley Brown, president Ofthe National Association for Gun Rights, ofthe Vegas massacre. ln one sense, history supports that argument. ln 2004 , Bill Clinton's ban on semiautomatic rifles, known as assault weapons, expired. But rather than spiking back up, the rate 0f gun homicides con- tinued to drop. From 1993 t0 2014 , that rate declined from seven firearm-related homicides per 100 , 000 Americans tO half that, according tO the Centers for Disease Control and prevention. Gun-rights ad- vocates used that as an example Of gun- control laws not working. ln truth, Clin- ton's "ban ” was so んⅡ ofloopholes no one believed it had been responsible for much ofthe decline in firearm-related deaths in the first place. But it is less logic than political fear that has thwarted the passage 0f even modest gun-control measures. AS the NRA and like-minded groups have be- come expert at harnessing a relatively small group 0f uncompromising gun- rights advocates, politicians fear being targeted in their next election. The com- bination Of money and motivation has been powerful. SO fierce was the NRA's opposition t0 Hillary Clinton lastyear that 1 in 8 ads on the air in OhiO was on guns; that ratio was 1 in 9 in North Carolina. Trump won bOth states. "The source Of the NRA's power is not simply money, says Adam Winkler, a law professor at UCLA and author of Gunfight: The Bat- tle Over the Right tO BearArms inAmenca. "The NRA's power comes from the ability tO swing voters in tight, close elections. There are a 10t Of single-issue, pro-gun voters out there that listen tO the NRNs recommendation. ” And, in the space Of gun-rights groups, the NRA is considered one Of the more moderate voices. That power opened the door t0 ex- pand gun rights on the state level. After 2004 , while advocates for limits on guns atte mpted t0 fight their way back on a federal assault-weapons bans, gun- rights groups were pushing t0 unravel restrictions elsewhere. At the state level, concealed-carry laws were loosened or abolished at a rapid clip. Many states started accepting the gun-license stan- dards oftheir counterparts, Often regard- less 0f whether they were more lax than their own. ln Nevada, 38 % 0f adults own guns, private gun sales are legal, and there are no state regulations limiting magazine c 叩 acity. Even on the federal level, where there appeared t0 be a political stalemate, gun- rights advocates found ways tO make progress on the margins. ln 2010 , a gun- parts manufacturer asked the Bureau Of AlcohoI, T0bacco, Firearms and Exp10- sives (ATF) for permission tO market a "bump stock ” that when fitted tO a semi- automatic weapon would allow the single- fire device tO unleash a constant barrage ofbullets. While the sale and ownership Of machine guns have been strictly con- trolled since the 1930S and such we 叩 ons are very rare among civilians, the com- pany argued their device would benefit handicapped gun enthusiasts, and the ATF assented. Right up until Vegas , gun-rights ad- vocates were trying tO advance laws loosening gun restrictions through the Republican-led Congress. Buried in the Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act, which was 'The NRA's power 00m05 曾 om the ability t0 swing 0te ー 9 ⅲ tight, 可 05e 可 00ti0 53 ADAM WINKLER,law professor at UCLA