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So some wacko 20 year old growing up in a household of a gun loving mom who legally purchased the assault weapons used last Friday commits a horrific, unspeakable atrocity, then commits suicide and leaves no apparent note explaining his motives.

The sense from here is we'll enact some new legislation banning assault weapons. But sadly, that won't stop these type massacres from repeating themselves in America.

  Oh no; as Americans are often heard to say, "We're not like the Europeans" or for that matter the Japanese, British or the Australians where strict gun legislation exist and the number of gun related crimes are minimal compared to America.

  Is that part of our American exceptionalism and sense of entitlement?

The further sense is America is also "graced" with mindless diversion, indifference and passivity, so this too will pass.

 

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Retired. The author of "DECEIT AND EXCESS IN AMERICA, HOW THE MONEYED INTERESTS HAVE STOLEN AMERICA AND HOW WE CAN GET IT BACK", Authorhouse, 2009
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