Minneapolis is grieving.

“Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now — these kids were literally praying,” Mayor Jacob Frey said after two children were killed and 17 others injured during Mass at Annunciation Catholic School.

In the hours after such attacks, the public hears familiar refrains. Democrats fault access to firearms; Republicans fault the people who pull the trigger.

For example, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) called for a national ban on assault-style weapons. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and former Republican governor of South Carolina, Kristi Noem, called the school shooter a “deranged monster.”

The pattern suggests a country split into irreconcilable camps — one focused on systems, the other on individuals.

Our new survey of 10,000 U.S. adults (f

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