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Once again a nutter cuts down innocent people and no one asks why he had a "large assault-type rifle" in his possession, as reported by KENS 5 TV. Thanks to rapid news cycles and gun lobby spin, the public accepts the occasional masked, armed shooter in its movie theaters and malls as the price we pay for a "free society" and our "gun rights." Hey--another day another murder/suicide.
Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shoots his
girlfriend in front of his own mother and drives to Arrowhead Stadium to shoot
himself in front of team officials? These things happen.
TSA agent mowed down at the Cleveland Hopkins Airport
parking lot three days ago by her estranged husband who then kills himself? What
are you going to do?
The gun lobby has so convinced people that laws against
civilians owning military, rapid fire weapons (and all the ammo they can buy)
violate our "rights," no carnage jolts people out of their NRA
trance. 33 dead at Virginia Tech and other school shootings? 70 gunned down at
Batman movie? Arizona Congressperson Gabby Giffords and Kirkwood, MO mayor,
public works director and council members shot? Hey, collateral damage in the
fight to protect our "gun rights."
The gun violence is becoming so over the top it barely makes
the Nightly News or delays the shopping, movie or football game. No one even
asks anymore, "The gunman was carrying WHAT?"--or "The firearms
dealer sold a weapon to WHO?"
In 2009, an Illinois pastor was shot in church through the Bible he was holding . The same year, a gunman dressed as Santa killed nine on Christmas Eve in Covina, CA. Last year there was another Santa killer. What will happen this year?
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