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In the aftermath of the country’s deadliest gun attack in modern times, many in the US are looking to the president for answers. But as he visits Las Vegas, will he provide them?On Sunday night, as the horror unfolded at the Route 91 country music festival, Bob and Heidi were serving pizzas.They’d travelled from their home state of Arkansas to work at the concert, when they heard the sound of bullets.As they took shelter in the food stand, with the heat of the pizza oven behind them, they helped people leave the venue to safety.
Still shaken by what happened, they, like so many people here in Las Vegas, are trying to work out what, if anything, could have been done to prevent the atrocity.”It’s not the guns, it’s more the people who own the guns,” says Bob, who thinks there should be better checks on the mental health of buyers. America’s gun culture in eight charts
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His calls for tougher restrictions on those with mental illness is at odds with what President Trump has done in the White House so far. Earlier this year, and to little fanfare, the president rolled back an Obama-era regulation which had restricted people with serious mental illnesses from owning a gun.It’s a move his supporters I’ve met here are at odds with. “It’s not the gun doing it, it’s the mind of the individual,” says Crystal, a Trump voter from Branson, Missouri.
“Everybody should have the right to carry a weapon, but that doesn’t justify somebody going crazy,” she says, pointing out that she carries a firearm when she’s back home. “I carry a gun, and I haven’t shot anybody,” she adds. Crystal does believes the constitutional right to bear arms should …
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