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Okay, NOW what do we say to guns?


Even though I have two WordPress blogs of my own…I just had to share this with you. Thinking back on Friday past, I suddenly pictured my grand-niece (a fourth-grader, btw)…and stopped cold in my tracks.
But, there’s NO amount of laws (current or future) that’ll stop people from getting a gun and killing others. It’s just un-doable. Plain and simple.wpid-Kitten-with-gun.jpg
20 first-graders dead…all because some fucktard with “mommy issues” had access to a gun. And yet, the politicians/celebrities/athletes/media types…ALL can’t find the urge to just SHUT THE FUCK UP!! No, it’s politicized now…shitheads.
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So, for what it’s worth, I reblog this piece. READ IT, people!! That is all.
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(Sorry. for some reason, the blog I attempted to repost here didn’t do so. Still, this’ll do.)

Diane Ravitch's blog

I had half a dozen interesting posts ready to go out today, but I decided it was inappropriate to return to business as usual after the tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

I postponed them. So you won’t be getting another post today.

This is a time to mourn, to reflect, to be still.

It’s a time to think about the heroic staff at the school who reacted immediately to protect their students.

It’s a time to think about the principal Dawn Hochsprung and the school psychologist Mary Sherlach. When the trouble started, they ran to the shooter instead of hiding.

I saw an interview with a teacher who was distraught. A reader saw the same interview and said this: “Did you happen to catch the interview with the one teacher (one amazing wonderful woman) who shepherded her class into a bathroom and kept them all assured that they…

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