A Familiar Editorial Split After Parkland Shooting, but Not Everywhere<br />“We need sensible gun control to help stop the slaughter.”<br />The image evoked the tabloid’s crusading heyday, back when Mr. Trump was a fixture in its pages and headlines demanded<br />that former Mayor David N. Dinkins “Do Something” amid a 1990 crime spree.<br />President, this is your moment,” the paper wrote, urging Mr. Trump to “prove how much you truly want to curb the carnage.”<br />Another Murdoch-owned outlet, however, showed no sign of championing gun control measures.<br />In fact, gun violence remains a significant challenge in American life; since the 2012 shooting at<br />an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., at least 239 school shootings have occurred nationwide.<br />It was one of the more striking responses from the news media to Wednesday’s killings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., an attack<br />that quickly revived the national debate over restricting access to guns, and why politicians have taken few steps to do so.<br />In October, after a gunman killed dozens of people at a concert in Las Vegas, the paper editorialized<br />that a 1990s-era assault weapon ban was merely “cosmetic,” and noted that mass shootings accounted “for a fraction” of domestic firearm-related deaths.<br />Breitbart took pains to suggest a seemingly damning contrast: the F. B.I.’s fumbling of a tip about the Parkland shooter<br />and the agency’s work investigating allegations of collusion between Russians and Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign
