On a sunny Saturday morning outside the local Safeway in Tucson,ÃÂ Arizona, a man pulls out a powerful handgun, opens fire - and engulfs the U.S. in a political ÃÂfirestorm.
Six people were killed on ÃÂSaturday, including a nine-year-old girl. But it was the fact that the target was a ÃÂDemocratic congresswoman - who is fighting for her life - which has sparked such a furious row, not, as one might expect, over the nature of Americaââ¬â¢s gun laws, but over the vitriolic nature of its politics.
Defenders of gun rights like to say itââ¬â¢s not the gun thatââ¬â¢s dangerous, but the user. Now the argument swirling across the U.S. is whether itââ¬â¢s not the user but violent political ÃÂrhetoric that may have ÃÂultimately pulled the trigger.
