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SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
6. As I often like to say,
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:16 AM
Dec 2012

this is not breaking news.

It's not a secret that this country loves its guns, loves to kill, and far too many of our citizens thinks that's okay. Every single day of the year more than 80 people are killed by guns. More often they happen by ones or twos, so don't make the kind of news that today's mass shootings made.

But it is beyond insanity that this is just fine with too many people.

I am so sick of the gun apologists crowing every time some homeowner kills an invader. Oops. The home invader was the 15 year old son who'd sneaked out of the house earlier that day. Oh, well, crap happens. That seems to be the logic.

I wish I could arrange it so that the ONLY persons who are ever killed by guns are those who think that we are safer because of guns. Safer? You want safer?

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