(CNN) -- In a Connecticut elementary school, 26 people, including 20 children, were killed by a gunman Friday morning. This comes on the heels of a shooting rampage on Tuesday in Oregon, where a masked man opened fire into crowds at a mall, killing two before killing himself. Tragic images flash across our television screens and computer monitors, as they have so many times in recent memory. These events will once again set in motion a predictable cycle of ineffectual chatter about gun violence in America. We will be told that now is not the time to discuss policy. By tomorrow, a well-funded gun rights propaganda machine will move into action. For the adherents of this ideology, the solution to the problem of gun violence is not better regulations but more guns. School shootings? Arm the teachers. Movie theater shootings? Arm the moviegoers.
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In a Connecticut school, at least 26 were killed, including at least 20 children
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Saul Cornell: Gun rights ideology makes a mockery of values of Second Amendment
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He says New York recently upheld a reasonable gun law, but Illinois did not
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Cornell: It is time to inject more sense and reason back into the debate over guns
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