• Colorado shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes makes his first court appearance in Aurora, Colorado, July 23, 2012. REUTERS/RJ Sangosti/Pool
    America and guns

    In July, America is shocked after a masked gunman kills 12 and wounds 58 when he opens fire on moviegoers at the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, a suburb of Denver. In August, another kills six during Sunday services at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, before he is shot dead by police.

    Calls for more gun control mount in earnest in December after a heavily armed gunman kills 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, and a body is found elsewhere in the town. The gunman is also dead.

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    Slideshow: Tragedy in Colorado Pictured: Marietta Perkins prays during a vigil for victims behind the theater where a gunman opened fire on moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado July 20, 2012. A total of 71 people were shot rampage at the Denver-area movie theater that has left 12 people dead. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
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    F.B.I. agents talk while investigating the apartment of James Holmes, the suspect who opened fire in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado July 21, 2012. Authorities have removed all of the explosives from the booby-trapped apartment of Holmes, a graduate student accused in a shooting rampage at a Denver area showing of the new "Batman" film. REUTERS/Jeremy Papasso
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    Stephen Taylor prays during a vigil for victims behind a theater where a gunman open fire on moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado July 20, 2012. A total of 71 people were shot in Friday's rampage at the Denver-area movie theater that has left 12 people dead. REUTERS/Jeremy Papasso.
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    Police examine the car of James Eagen Holmes behind the theater where a gunman opened fire on moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado July 20, 2012. REUTERS/John Wark.
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