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[Joe Campbell]

How could you possibly claim that a GUN was NOT at least one of the causal factors in a SHOOTING? I don't want to insult you but ...

On Dec 31, 2012, at 11:06 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 12/31/2012 10:20 PM, Saundra Lund wrote:
>>  Although, I could easily use Paul – with respect to the Newtown murders, he recently made a comment about shooters, Columbine, and bullying that was factually wrong, too  J 
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> Was the Columbine shooting not related to bullying?  I'm no expert historian on this subject or anything, but that was what I remembered from when we were trudging through the aftermath of that event.
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> My point, if I recall correctly, was that we should be focusing on the causes of these spree shootings, instead of trying to make them go away by taking away one set of guns.  So if the causes of Columbine did not involve bullying, then we should be focusing on what those causes actually were.  That's a more direct and probably more cost-effective solution, imho.
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> You see, that's the thing.  I go into these things expecting to have a conversation.  Someone says something, others provide more information, ideas get bandied about, I learn something, I find I'm wrong in some areas, right in others, everyone walks away with a better idea of what's going on.  Instead, I'm supposed to be a member of a college debate team or something.  And people are keeping score and I don't even know what rules they are using.
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> Paul
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