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14 Aug, 2012

Most Mass Shooters Pass Background Checks – Alternet

Even though Tucson’s heavily armed citizenry failed to stop Jared Lee Loughner’s rampage last year that killed six people, including a US district court judge, and almost killed former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz), the gun lobby pushes for the right to carry firearms on college campuses, in state parks, in coffee shops, on trains, in home rule communities that forbid them and of course in the workplace. Laws that restrict gun owners from taking their weapons everywhere oppress them says the National Rifle Association (NRA) which calls itself a civil rights group. Did James Eagen Holmes, the Batman suspect, feel oppressed too?

via Most Mass Shooters Pass Background Checks | Alternet.