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Flowers, candles and other items surround the famous Las Vegas sign at a makeshift memorial for victims of a mass shooting (AP Photo/John Locher).
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Jason Blakely
Pat Robertson and others appear to have abandoned the notion that political action has the ability to improve the lives of the governed.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Gerald J. Beyer
Politicians who enable the proliferation of assault weapons are guilty of illicit cooperation in evil.
FaithFaith in Focus
James Martin, S.J.
I am sad over the loss of life, tired of excuses for the loss of life, and angry that we are paralyzed by the loss of life.
A police officer stands in front of the Tropicana hotel-casino in Las Vegas Oct. 2 after a mass shooting at a music festival. A gunman perched on the 32nd floor of a hotel unleashed a shower of bullets late Oct. 1 on an outdoor country music festival below, killing more than 50 people and wounding hundreds, making it the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history (CNS photo/Steve Marcus, Las Vegas Suns). 
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The pope “offers the promise of his prayers for the injured and for all who have died, entrusting them to the merciful love of Almighty God.”
Arts & CultureBooks
Roger Bergman
"Stand your ground" laws typically expand the historic reach of the “castle doctrine,” the right in English common law to defending one’s own property.
A U.S. Capitol police SWAT team officer escorts members of Congress and congressional staff from the scene after a gunman opened fire on Republican members of Congress during a baseball practice in Alexandria, Va., on June 14. (CNS photo/Joshua Roberts, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Ellen K. Boegel
The sale of new fully automatic weapons has been banned since 1986, but there are an estimated 182,600 pre-1986 machine guns in the United States that may be bought and sold legally.