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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Friday, December 21st.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden,

executive editor of The New Yorker. We're talking today about whether a tipping point has been

reached on the issue of gun violence and gun control. Just for the record, since the expiration

of the federal ban on assault weapons in 2004, this country has experienced the most concentrated

and deadly series of mass shootings

in American history.

Let me just list them quickly.

In the last five years, Virginia Tech, Fort Hood, Texas, the shooting of Representative

Gabrielle Giffords and others in Tucson, Oakland, California, Aurora, Colorado.

And last week, of course, the massacre of 26 children and adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

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