Days after the Valentine's Day shooting that left 17 dead at a Florida secondary school, Minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugam said in a Facebook post: "It baffles me that people are freely allowed to buy submachine guns in an urban environment."
American inaction against gun violence also baffles students in courses I teach at Nanyang Technological University. Why doesn't the American government just stop the carnage, they ask.
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