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Botany

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6. America has had 87 school shootings since Sandy Hook.
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 04:10 PM
Oct 2014

And no doubt right now the NRA is having meetings on how to manage this
latest bloodshed.

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Mercy shenmue Oct 2014 #1
. tk2kewl Oct 2014 #2
"As a father, this has been my fear since my kids have been in school, that something like this... villager Oct 2014 #3
The US has become a pretty lame country in solving problems, and the solutions by fools is RKP5637 Oct 2014 #5
Nothing is being "built" here, in terms of society. It is fraying. villager Oct 2014 #8
Agree! We're living through the last days of it IMO. Relative to the climate, it's RKP5637 Oct 2014 #10
Exactly, and yet the idiot media is trying to scare everybody about Ebola. nt raccoon Oct 2014 #22
Prayers sent for all ... Peacetrain Oct 2014 #4
America has had 87 school shootings since Sandy Hook. Botany Oct 2014 #6
Bottom line, the big picture! Disgusting! RKP5637 Oct 2014 #12
Gun violence is not a legitimate public health issue? mahannah Oct 2014 #7
Washington state is currently voting ballardgirl Oct 2014 #14
This is sickening ballardgirl Oct 2014 #9
Lamoureux (Marysville Chief) confirms 2 dead LeftOfWest Oct 2014 #11
From Twitter.. yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #13
The shooter was a freshman named Jaylen Fryberg. amandabeech Oct 2014 #15
"I have no idea what his motive was because yesterday at football practice, he was all fine, talking jtuck004 Oct 2014 #21
All in all, a very sad and troubling incident. amandabeech Oct 2014 #23
We killed any kids with drones today, any cops use excessive deadly force, standard excuses? jtuck004 Oct 2014 #16
Lets Do Nothing Again and Again otohara Oct 2014 #17
If Madison Thespian2 Oct 2014 #18
Marysville in my back yard.. Docross Oct 2014 #19
My colleague went to that school, feeling pretty freaked out freeplessinseattle Oct 2014 #20
Locking defacto7 Oct 2014 #24
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