Our
collective heart aches again with multiple deaths and injuries in
Colorado. Our desires of hope and comfort reach out to the wounded and
bereaved.
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| Columbine Shooter, 1999 |
The Aurora, Colorado shooting again pushes into our collective face
that we have an extreme proneness to gun
violence in America Culture. There rightly should be great concern regarding
the obsession in America with guns, not hunting guns but repeating high
powered semi-automatic weapons that have nothing to do with hunting or
reasonable home self defense. We should be shamed that we have been
unwilling to face this dangerous mindset. The political power of the NRA
has been the strongest force of preventing such reasonable common sense
gun control. As this link shows other developed countries simply do
not have this problem of violent murders with weapons.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir-crime-murders-with-firearms
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