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Old 07-16-2013, 09:56 PM   #982
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Originally Posted by DiracSpike View Post
Could not agree more. If one looks at the situation from far away it's a scenario that's played out a million times before: Two young guys with chips on their shoulders and previous histories of violence engage each other. The pretenses under which doesn't really matter, especially since the only witnes was Z and he can pretty much say whatever the hell he wants because the other witness got shot in the heart. The only factor that propels this from a schoolyard scrap is the handgun that Americans love so much. Two guys fight, one ends up shot dead with a widely available, easily concealable death machine. It happens every day in the USA.
great post and this is how I feel too. Americans' love affair with guns is bizarre. They kill things and people cruise around with them strapped to their hips. It's truly utterly bizarre.
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