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Mojorabbit

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12. If you read any of the articles

Reply to Paladin (Reply #9)

Sat Jan 25, 2014, 04:02 PM

Jan 2014

They are fine with reporting on the incidents but not the sensationalism of the reporting which may influence some unstable people to copycat. I would post the links but I am on my new tablet and have not figured out how to copy paste on it yet. Easy to Google using terms above. Bill Moyers and the Atlantic are hardly proponents of "safer than ever".

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If you read any of the articles Mojorabbit Jan 2014 #12

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