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Marthe48

(17,011 posts) Wed Oct 4, 2017, 10:33 AM Oct 2017

Article about the victims

I saw on Yahoo. I went through the whole story, there are 34 of the victims listed: 22 women, 12 men. All of them part of a family, a community, employed, valued for their existence. Each one a thread in our tapestry of human living.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/registered-nurse-among-those-killed-las-vegas-mass-173706625--abc-news-topstories.html

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Article about the victims (Original Post) Marthe48 Oct 2017 OP

So sad but... SHRED Oct 2017 #1

We are all one family Marthe48 Oct 2017 #2

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

1. So sad but...

Reply to Marthe48 (Original post)

Wed Oct 4, 2017, 10:37 AM

Oct 2017

...I'd feel just as sad if they were all homeless people.

Marthe48

(17,011 posts)

2. We are all one family

Reply to SHRED (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 4, 2017, 11:27 AM

Oct 2017

if people would only understand. I agree wholeheartedly that anyone's death diminishes me.

I am sad because it is like we are deer and there are bastards with guns in a tree stand.

I am using the hunting analogy not because I am against hunting, but because of the idea we have not warning, no protection and evidently Congress has made it legal to hunt humans.

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