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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 11:22 PM Oct 2015

Warm welcome from Uncle Blam

Paul Little
5:00 AM Sunday Oct 11, 2015

... my attention had been caught by another shirt that showed an automatic rifle under the legend: "Muslim conversion tool". There was also: "What part of semi don't you understand?" and many more.

"If we'd tried to tell her there was anything wrong with the messages on those shirts," said my son, "she just wouldn't get it, would she?" ...

The Natchez Gun Show was family-friendly with free home-cooked snacks, children everywhere, advice for tourists and an arsenal.

When something is normalised and ingrained in a culture, it's impossible to make people step back and look at it from any other perspective ...


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11527171

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