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Bluenorthwest

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32. Guns make it worse but it is the hate that causes the violence. Can't get around that.

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 08:30 AM

Jun 2016

Until Orlando, the most deadly attack on a gay place was done with gasoline and a match. 32 dead. In 1997 Eric Rudolph used a bomb at the Otherside Lounge in Atlanta.

So sure, guns. But also people. Both are factors. Making it all about the choice of weapon misses important elements and tends to discount the agency of the killers, who did the killings.

I wonder what DU would be talking about if this had been arson or explosives?

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