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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
edit - yea i'm fine with background checks... but iirc the newton kid used his mothers guns to go on that rampage. really this system isn't designed to address the mass shooting phenomenon.
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Point being that even in the immediate wake of that horrendous event the country couldn't collectively get behind perfectly common sense gun legislation. I remember how the numbers went in the weeks following. Immediately after a large percentage were for universal checks and the politicians jumped on board. Then with each passing week the numbers quickly plummeted and the politos quickly started backing away.
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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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