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"I don't mean this in a disrespectful way/but Columbine happens in the ghetto everyday" - LL Cool J
I think the reason that people havent "gotten over" Columbine, is that none of the lessons seem to have been learned, the question to come out of it surely is that should it really be so easy for emotionally disturbed kids to lay their hands on a lethal arsenal of firearms?
America - or at least the right wing part of America - seems to have its love affair with guns, so there is a choice I guess, if the freedom to own guns is so important to the nation, you will have to bare many more tragedies such as this one. I suppose the parents must feel that their children's lives were worth so much, that the loss of them really should make people start to think that these guns shouldnt be out there that this shouldnt be allowed to happen again... most parents love their children a great deal so I think most of us can appreciate how they feel.
For those who have no love, well of course its sad, but its easy to rationalise it away... and if those kids hadnt have had any guns, they just could have killed all their classmates with a kitchen knife, or a bat, and its people who kill people not guns, and... well all the rest we hear so often from the gun lobby.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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