Kathy Sheridan: Trump is now the most prominent victim of the AR-15 and the gun culture he relentlessly championed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Trump promised to use his speech at the Republican National Convention to "bring the country together".
53% : Trump has promised to use a speech to 'bring the country together'.
43% : After almost every high-profile shooting the immediate response from the gun rights blowhards is the same: desperate efforts to define the shooter as "alien" - foreign, African American, Muslim, transgender, Democrat/communist/lefty types; protesting that it's too soon to discuss the tragedy; complaining that the tragedy is being politicised; urging people to move on - as Trump did in Iowa following the mass shooting by a 17-year-old at Perry High School.
40% : When a second amendment fan came for Trump himself in Pennsylvania it was in the shape of a 20-year-old nursing home employee who murdered a 50-year-old father of two daughters and critically injured a 57-year-old former US Marine Corps veteran and a 74-year-old registered Democrat.
39% : The dead and injured did not have the do-or-die protection of a Secret Service detail nor the power to order lethally exposed officers to "wait!", as Trump demanded, while fashioning himself an alpha male image for the ages.
26% : In the aftermath of Saturday's shooting Stephen Miller, a senior Trump adviser, tweeted that "the entire campaign message of the Democrat Party has been the vile and monstrous lie that Trump and the GOP are trying to end democracy.

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