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Enough Is Enough: Time For Gun Control Is NOW
As everyone is now aware, last Thursday, a gunman murdered 10 people on the campus of a community college in Oregon, leaving at least 20 other people injured.
In the days following the shootings, Fox News took to the defensive, saying that this was not an issue of gun violence, but instead was an attack on religious freedom – another form of Christian persecution by a crazed, anti-religion zealot.
They also parroted the familiar talking point that a good guy with a gun could have put an end to this before it began, which is the standard line that the NRA issues to conservative media outlets following a mass shooting like this.
Full text at Ring of Fire.
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