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Saw this at the Y a couple of weekends past.  I went to the Children’s Defense Fund and found this:

I’m gonna have to do something about that.  Maybe if I put it into print I’ll actually get off my ass.

 

 

Tucson and the State

Events like this are seminal.  We’ll remember this forever.  Or for a long time at least.  Maybe it’ll linger only for those of us old enough and plugged in enough to know what happened.

For my kids, it might make a note in the history book for their civics course; maybe not.

I get twisted by stuff like this.  All the normal stuff to be sure.  The tragedy of the story, the victims that passed away, the victims that lived.  Hell, the victim that is the shooter – what musta happened to him to make him wanna do that.

But somewhere inside, I felt we were missin’ somethin’.

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