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Research on background checks for gun purchases suggests there is an increase in gun acquisition a few months after a mass shooting happens.

American children and teenagers are 4 times more likely to die by gunfire than their counterparts in Canada, 7 times more likely than young people in Israel, and 65 times more likely to be killed with a gun than children and teenagers in the United Kingdom.   There is a crisis of youth gun violence in this country. Even though …