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By Callum Borchers
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Las Vegas introduced Americans
to the rapid-fire lethality of bump
stocks. Parkland reminded the public
how quickly someone can inflict mass
carnage with an AR-15, the weapon of
choice in many rampages.
But Friday’s shooting at Santa Fe
High School, which left 10 dead, was
carried out with a pistol and a shotgun
— firearms that even gun-control advo-
cates generally regard as utilitarian.
The reality that weapons not includ-
ed in proposed assault-rifle bans can
still exact a double-digit death toll fur-
ther complicates a wrenching national
debate about how to prevent future
tragedies.
“That’s true” that weapons other
than assault rifles can kill many people
at once, conceded Avery W. Gardiner,
co-president of the Brady Campaign to
Prevent Gun Violence, which favors a
federal ban on assault rifles but not on
shotguns or pistols.
Gardiner added, however, that “the
reason most mass shootings are con-
ducted with assault weapons is that
shooters know full well what weap-
on to select, if they want to kill the
most amount of people in the shortest
amount of time possible, and that’s an
AR-15-style gun with a large-capacity
magazine. If this shooter had had one
of those, quite likely there would have
been more deaths and injuries. But we
don’t know.”
In the February shooting at Marjo-
ry Stoneman Douglas High School in
Parkland, Florida, the gunman used
an AR-15 to kill 17 people. President
Donald Trump, who once supported an
assault-weapons ban but campaigned
as a Second Amendment champion,
called for raising the minimum age to
purchase such weapons to 21 after the
Parkland shooting. He subsequently
softened his position, directing a com-
mission led by Education Secretary
Betsy DeVos to merely “study and make
recommendations” on “age restrictions
for certain firearm purchases.”
Scott Pearson, father of a Santa Fe
High football player, suggested Friday’s
wretched result would have been the
same, regardless of weapon.
“You can do this with anything,” said
Pearson, who sometimes drove the al-
leged shooter, Dimitrios Pagourtzis,
home from practice. ‘Almost everybody
has a pistol or a shotgun for protection.”
There are more registered weapons
in Texas than in any other state, accord-
ing to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives, though some
smaller states have more guns per cap-
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Retired Army Lt. Col. Don Spaulding speaks during Sunday’s Memorial Day service at Roselawn Memorial Park in Denton. The Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post 2205 hosted the service to honor those who gave their lives fighting for their country.
Honor and recognition
By Julia Falcon
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oselawn Memorial Park
hosted an early Memorial
Day celebration Sunday
afternoon, filling up its Pitner
Pavilion.
Members and family mem-
bers of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post 2205 and the La-
dies Auxiliary came together to
pay tribute to veterans, which
they have been doing since after
World War II.
The event was hosted the week
before Memorial Day because
there already were events sched-
uled at Roselawn on the actual
holiday weekend, and also so
they can honor veterans longer.
‘We can keep the [Ameri-
can] flags out longer,” said Kacy
Wozniak, an employee of Rose-
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Diana Rush places flowers on a casket during Sunday’s service at Roselawn
Memorial Park in Denton.
The VFW members displayed a cas- member of the U.S. Army, was the key-
ket with an American flag on it, which is note speaker at the event. Spaulding said
traditional at an armed forces funeral, to this day is important to him because of his
symbolize and honor those who have died, friends and family lost during the wars.
Flowers were placed on the casket, which ‘All kinds of people have died fighting
was empty for this event, to represent re- for this country, and all of this is still going
membrance, purity, eternity and the na- on today,” Spaulding said. “It’s never end-
tion. ing, but at least we can take a moment to
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United States, China putting trade war on hold after progress in talks
needs of the Chinese people and the need for
high-quality economic development”
Last year, the U.S. had a record $376 bil-
lion deficit with China in the trade of goods;
that was the largest by far with any nation.
Trade analysts were not surprised that
China refused to agree to a numerical target
for cutting the trade gap, but they said the
talks probably were more successful in eas-
ing trade tensions.
“The Trump administration seems eager
to engineer at minimum a temporary peace
with China to ensure a smooth run-up to
the Kim-Trump summit in June,” Cornell
University economist Eswar Prasad said, re-
ferring to the June 12 meeting scheduled be-
tween President Donald Trump and North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
By Martin Crutsinger and Paul Wiseman
AP Economics Writers
WASHINGTON - The United States
and China are pulling back from the brink
of a trade war after the world’s two biggest
economies reported progress in talks aimed
at bringing down America’s massive trade
deficit with Beijing.
‘We are putting the trade war on hold,”
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said
Sunday.
After high-level talks Thursday and Fri-
day in Washington, Beijing agreed in a joint
statement with the U.S. to “substantially re-
duce” America’s trade deficit with China, but
did not commit to cut the gap by any specif-
ic amount. The Trump administration had
sought to slash the deficit by $200 billion.
Still, Mnuchin said the two countries
had made “meaningful progress” and that
the administration has agreed to put on
hold proposed tariffs on up to $150 billion
in Chinese products. China had promised to
retaliate in a move that threatened a tit for
tat trade war.
He said they expect to see a big increase
— 35 percent to 45 percent this year alone
— in U.S. farm sales to China. Mnuchin also
forecast a doubling in sales of U.S. energy
products to the Chinese market, increasing
energy exports by $50 billion to $60 billion
in the next three years to five years.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who
has been part of the U.S. negotiating team,
will go to China soon to follow up on last
week’s discussions, Mnuchin said.
In Saturday’s statement, Beijing commit-
ted to “significantly increase” its purchases of
American goods and services, saying the in-
crease would “meet the growing consumption
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United States Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, left, and
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang attend a July 19 session
at the Comprehensive Economic Dialogue between the U.S.
and China, in Washington.
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