Speeches like the one President Obama gave in Tucson on Wednesday can be turning points for a president. And while it's too early to tell if that will be the case for Obama, the early assessments are already rolling in.
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The Maddow Blog - How many lives?
The Maddow Blog - How many lives?
The folks at Mother Jones have crunched the numbers on a question many have been asking in the wake of Saturday's shooting in Tucson. What if 31 shots had been only 10?
The high-capacity ammunition clip used by the alleged Tucson shooter would have been illegal under 1994's Federal Assault Weapons Ban, legislation that was allowed to expire in 2004. Had he been restricted to "only" 10 bullets, and assuming the same hit ratio, he would have shot six people and perhaps killed one or two, Mother Jones calculates. Instead, 20 people were shot; six of them lost their
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