"1,000 shooting deaths off-camera for each victim at Virginia Tech"

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/942

Greg Palast: The Accomplices: Sundance George and Butch Reid and the Virginia Tech Massacre


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But before we bring in the suspects for questioning, let's pull back the camera lens for the bigger picture. Because what we saw at Virginia Tech was just a concentrated node of a larger, nationwide killing spree that goes on day after day in the USA. Eighty-thousand Americans take a bullet from a handgun in any year; 30,000 die. That's 1,000 shooting deaths off-camera for each victim at Virginia Tech.

Sundance Bush is right now at the school for his photo op. The President is "saddened and angered by these senseless acts of violence." But will our senseless and violent President do anything about it? He already has: On July 29, 2005, the U.S. Senate passed, then Bush signed, a grant of immunity from lawsuits for Walther, Glock, and other gun manufacturers.

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The Walther .22 comes from Austria. Hitler came from Austria, too. The Glock 7mm student-slayer comes from Germany. With the legal protection handed them by Bush and Reid, the two Teutonic weapons profiteers can skip free of legal judgment with that line well-practiced by their countrymen: "We were only taking orders -- for our product."
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Glock is from Austria, Walther is German.