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TDale313

(7,820 posts)
2. Why do we just accept this?
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 11:33 PM
Jul 2015

No other country deals with mass shootings like this on the scale we do, not to mention the individuals killed by gun violence every day in this country. Not even Sandy Hook could change how we address this. I am so heartbroken and frustrated.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
3. I don;t think we do
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 11:35 PM
Jul 2015

remember the polls regarding something be done and what Congress did? This is another proof we are an oligarchy.

cantbeserious

(13,039 posts)
10. Every Weapon Sold - Every Round Discharged - Represents Profit To The Oligarchs
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 11:42 PM
Jul 2015

Dead Americans Are The New Revenue Stream In A Failing Consumer Economy.

-none

(1,884 posts)
4. When are we going to do something of substance to make it harder for the criminals and head cases
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 11:35 PM
Jul 2015

to get and keep firearms?
This country is awash in guns of all kinds, with more being sold everyday. It is more than evident that more guns do not make for a safer society. In fact the opposite is apparent.

cry baby

(6,682 posts)
5. Getting to be a once a week news item,
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 11:35 PM
Jul 2015

then a couple of days later, the story is all but forgotten.

It absolutely breaks my heart and it really makes me want to move to a civilized country.

 

villager

(26,001 posts)
14. Hopefully that will be it *for the week*.
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 12:36 AM
Jul 2015

But of course, an armed America is a happy America!

Our headlines just scream the evidence!

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
15. Price we pay so yahoos can fondle a closet full of gunz and walk among us with one or two
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 01:26 AM
Jul 2015

strapped to their body supposedly for "protection. "

It's not worth it.

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