Gun violence goes on, and so does the denial

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By MARCOS BRETON
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Published: Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 - 11:00 pm
Last Modified: Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 - 11:24 pm
Another day, another loaded gun carried by a disturbed young man, another person shot to death. Once again we’re confronted by an epidemic of gun violence denied by too many.

This time it was at Los Angeles International Airport – a firearm murder Friday that snarled air traffic across America and panicked thousands of people trapped within an airport terminal.

The video footage of passengers racing through LAX with fear in their eyes is an image illustrative of our times.

I’ve been through that airport so many times I could easily imagine myself running for dear life with the names of my loved ones welled in my throat.

Who couldn’t imagine it?

Our public places have so often become terror chambers where the mundane morphs into the unthinkable with the speed of a bullet.

But fresh blood won’t be enough to change our gun narrative.

It’s no match for the political muscle of the National Rifle Association, its millions of dollars and the fortress of gun-rights dogma it has erected.

What happened at LAX could happen anywhere. It does happen anywhere.

But it’s still a not a problem, right? We can’t even consider that it’s way too easy to get a gun?

A gun is just a tool, right?

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1. as the piece states it's not denial it's "dogma"

It borders on wacky religious, science denying zeal.