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If you're a cynic and I know a lot of you are, you could look at Americans getting vaccinated,

restrictions being lifted, sports welcoming back fans, and now back-to-back weeks with

headline-grabbing mass shootings and say, well, there it is folks, America's back. But Jennifer

Masia writes about guns for the trace and she'd like to tell you America never left.

No, mass shootings never stopped in communities of color. Just two weeks ago, 15 people were shot

in Chicago, two of them fatally, on the same day, four people were shot in London, Chicago,

so you have two mass shootings on the same day in Chicago two weeks ago. They didn't stop

national news coverage. CNN didn't break in, and Lori Lightfoot didn't give a presser.

These shootings never went away. They take the form of domestic shootings a lot of times.

There was a lot of domestic violence. As soon as the pandemic happened, it destabilized

a lot of segments of society.

Now, to its credit, the House did take up this issue two weeks ago before either of these

mass shootings in Georgia or Colorado that are in fact getting a ton of attention. What's

in the bills that the House of Representatives passed?

Two weeks ago, the House passed a bill that expands background checks to private gun

sales. They would require unlicensed and private sellers to conduct background checks for

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