Time for the gun industry and NRA to accept blame for America’s bloodshed

Yellow tape cordons off the scene where a 16-year-old was shot in the head and killed, and an 18-year-old was wounded, on the 7300 block of South Sangamon Street in 2016. | Getty Images file photo Gun manufacturers and dealers could play a huge role in making our nation safer. Instead, the gun lobby continues to peddle the discredited narrative that it is not its products, but criminals alone, that are the problem. As America seeks answers to gun violence, the gun industry should be in our nation’s sights. A study released last week by the Center for American Progress details how the gun lobby over decades has insulated itself from responsibility for the...