Gail Collins of The New York Times writes:

Guns are a big issue in some of the hottest elections around the country this year, but there hasn’t been much national discussion about it.

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But now, as usual, we’re returning to the issue because of a terrible school shooting.

The latest — a high school freshman boy with a gun in the school’s cafeteria — occurred in the state of Washington, which also happens to be ground zero for the election-year gun debate. At least that’s the way the movement against gun violence sees it. There’s a voter initiative on the ballot that would require background checks for gun sales at gun shows or online.

Read the full column here.