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Gun violence strikes Congress. How will lawmakers respond?

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point.

Yesterday's attack on a Republican baseball practice was one of 155 shootings involving

four or more people since the first of this year. That's almost one such incident every day.

Congressman Steve Scalise is still in critical condition. Out of respect to him, Congress has

canceled a hearing on bills that would ease regulations on firearm silencers in armor-piercing ammunition.

Even Democrats who favor gun control aren't pushing it hard.

Whatever happened to limitations on the Second Amendment favored by public opinion.

Later on today's talking point is America's polarization leading to a kind of civil war or political divorce.

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Hello again, we're on only back with To The Point. A congressman is gunned down during baseball practice with three other people, just one of more than 150 mass shootings this year.

Will bullets striking so close to home change anything on Capitol Hill?

We'll get some answers. On today's talking point later, Americans are separating themselves from

each other in many ways, culturally, politically, and geographically. Will that lead to a kind of

civil war or something more complicated? First, his news update. Before he was fired, FBI director James Comey told President Trump three times he was not under investigation.

That was then.

This is now.

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