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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Sun Jun 12, 2016, 11:35 AM Jun 2016

"No Way To Prevent This," Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Tuesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said North Carolina resident Samuel Wipper, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this guy from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what he really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past five years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”

http://www.theonion.com/article/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-36131



Yes,it's referring to another mass casualty shooting in America and it's from the Onion,but it's true for every( now sickeningly common)mass shooting.

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"No Way To Prevent This," Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (Original Post) sufrommich Jun 2016 OP
All Assault rifles should be banned malaise Jun 2016 #1
2008 cannot come fast enough for me. nt Dreamer Tatum Jun 2016 #2
Yes they should. I'm hoping Obama just comes out and says that while sufrommich Jun 2016 #3
The Onion's best ever. nt eppur_se_muova Jun 2016 #4

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
3. Yes they should. I'm hoping Obama just comes out and says that while
Sun Jun 12, 2016, 11:40 AM
Jun 2016

making our now standard Presidential statement on mass shootings. I'm also hoping he lays the blame where it belongs,the NRA and the politicians who fear them.

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