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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 04:26 AM Dec 2012

Time for talking is over, gun control now

J D Prose
Posted: Sunday, December 16, 2012 12:15 am
Updated: 6:39 pm, Fri Dec 14, 2012.

... Over and over and over and over it happens — far away and close to home — and yet nothing is done. At what point do we do something?

At what point do we tell the blood-on-their-hands National Rifle Association and the gutless politicians who cower before them that we’ve had enough?

At what point have we seen too many incredibly sad blaring headlines? Too many crying families? Too many terrified children? Too many body bags?

Oh, you want quiet reflection today? Too bad. We’re angry. Very angry. Politicians on BOTH SIDES have been whipped into obedience by the insane, yes, insane NRA, which sees ANY DISCUSSION about gun laws as a gateway to tyranny or a One World Order or whatever crazy conspiracy theory it can use to scare its members into donating more money ...

http://www.timesonline.com/columnists/j_d_prose/time-for-talking-is-over-gun-control-now/article_b1ae1dd6-a588-5724-b642-7b1ccec2610a.html

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