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Another shooting

Schools were once considered some of the safest places in the country.

That has changed.

The recent killings at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., are the most recent evidence that schools are easy targets.

This attack by a young man is the continuation of frightening attacks on innocents. Obviously, the wave of gun violence in the nation is not over.

Many demand stricter control of guns to avoid more mass murders. Others want gun ownership rights protected at all costs, interpreting the Second Amendment to give relatively unfettered gun ownership to citizens.

There has to be a middle...

 

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