America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA) ...a letter from Michael Moore

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260. "Harden a hateful culture war"??

...Nah. It could do just the opposite. Help us find common ground. Seek concrete solutions.

Let's be clear. The war is between gun defenders and those who want a saner, more civilized nation where innocents are not mowed down with regularity (you know, like in other more evolved nations).

This is not really a "culture war"--unless you really do see our entire culture defined as the "gun culture" vs. the rest of us. Maybe you do.

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---Re. "the memory of the children" -- if the parents agree that this nation needs to see the horror that was inflicted, then it would be OK. We are ALL complicit. You and I and everyone with a conscience. ALL complicit. We sit back and shake our heads and then we look away. And we forget. And go on living in fear. Until the next time. What you are suggesting is that we should just be fine with this. If there is any chance that the loss of these lives could bring about change, it will not happen unless America wakes up. Americans need to see what has been done, like what happened at Auschwitz needed to be seen. What happened at Abu Ghraib needed to be seen, what happened in Vietnam needed to be seen.

What we are allowing to go on in this country--is on the level of many of the world's known atrocities to humankind.

We allow it. We are complicit.