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benEzra

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Sat Feb-16-08 10:57 AM
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55. The same day as the U of I shooting, 273 people were killed by alcohol...

which shows that a lot of the "outrage" upthread is political opportunism, not concern for lives. They hate guns and the people who own them, so tragedies like this are an opportunity for some to lash out at those groups they hate.

In nearly all of the grandstanding posts I've read in the wake of this and other shootings, I've seen a lot of "outrage" directed against nonviolent, lawful people who choose own guns, and very little outrage at mass murderers themselves...

(And no, I don't support alcohol prohibition either.)

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