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This is an horrific occurrence and I hope nobody here was directly (or indirectly) affected.
When this was on the news last night, my daughter (nine years old) said "why did a soldier kill people?",
"It wasn't a soldier, it was just a person with a gun - in America, people are allowed to buy guns, the government has a law that lets them, and it's very important to them that they have that right"
"Why doesn't the government just make sure that only soldiers can have guns, nobody else needs them - that way all those people would still be alive"
As much as anything this highlights to me the seemingly non-reconcilable differences in the view of gun control in the Old World and the New World.
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