Michael Waldman

New York University

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President of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law; author of The Second Amendment: A Biography and The Fight to Vote

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In yesterday's primaries, party frontrunners won. Many voters lost. A record number of New Yorkers complained about delays and glitches, not to mention anger at closed primary rules.

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Another lone gunman grabbed headlines last week in California, but so-called mass shootings rarely kill more than a dozen people.

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