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Editorial: Most Americans want stricter gun laws. Senate Republicans don’t seem to care

Gun-control opponents like to say that guns don’t kill people, people kill people.

Yet strict gun control will be in effect at Friday’s National Rifle Association conference in Houston during a speech by former President Donald Trump.

That’s right. At the gathering of the most ardent opponents of gun control, in the state where Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed one of the nation’s laxest gun laws — allowing almost everyone over age 21 to carry handguns without a license — Trump will enjoy the safety of a room where firearms are banned. The Secret Service insists on it.

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