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6. There is definitely some truth to that

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:10 PM

Dec 2012

This NY Times editorial said it pretty well. This stuff isn't happening out of nowhere. We are letting it happen by refusing to adjust our values and policies to meet the risks that a culture clinging to guns and outwardly angry pose.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/opinion/why-we-let-the-school-shootings-continue.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

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The gun crowd is willing to accept occasional civilian massacres, even of children [View all] michigandem58 Dec 2012 OP

Have you contacted our idiot governor .... etherealtruth Dec 2012 #1

I think the pro-gun senators ducking Sunday talk shows are posting here michigandem58 Dec 2012 #3

Eh, they're just channeling Madeline Albright Fumesucker Dec 2012 #4

I don't have many Facebook friends who are in the gun crowd Arugula Latte Dec 2012 #5

I saw those too loyalsister Dec 2012 #7

+1 ellisonz Dec 2012 #18

There is definitely some truth to that loyalsister Dec 2012 #6

It's 'the cost of doing business.' nt onehandle Dec 2012 #9

No, it's the price of "freedom" pinboy3niner Dec 2012 #15

Not the gun crowd. We as a society have made this grand social bargain: Comrade Grumpy Dec 2012 #11

Yes. They are not hugging their children a little tighter this sad TwilightGardener Dec 2012 #12

Collateral damage AceWheeler Dec 2012 #13

100% true n/t geomon666 Dec 2012 #14

Well, now, as they say, "the tree of liberty" ....... Judi Lynn Dec 2012 #16

Their tree of liberty loves the blood of 6-year-olds jsr Dec 2012 #17