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In reply to the discussion: Indiana police find 47 guns in arrest over threat to elementary school [View all]RC
(25,592 posts)We used out imaginations. We roll played. Broken tree branches became everything from guns to baseball bats or hockey sticks. The same abandon building was anything from a outlaw hideout to a knight's castle, complete with throne room.
Now? We walk around in public, totally oblivious to everyone else, listing to music and playing games on our smart phone or tablets. All to often, our friends are electronic, not real flesh and blood.
Other people become as real as the pixels moving on the touch screen. It is no wonder the Newtown's are becoming regular occurrences.
This in no way diminishes the obscene numbers of easily obtained guns floating around in this country, that makes mass shootings as easy as pushing the trigger button on your iPad, or whatever.