How Come Only Mass Shootings Make the News?

Mike Weisser
4 min readJul 6, 2022

Back in 2013, shortly after Sandy Hook, the Chicago suburb of Highland Park passed an AR-15 ban. The ban not only prohibited any town residents from going out a buying an assault rifle, but also required any current AR-15 owner to either get rid of the gun or move out of town.

The law was appealed by the usual pro-gun bunch and the appeal went all the way up to the Supreme Court, which by…

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