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~~October 10, 2015~~

IT HAPPENS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN

We were barely reeling from the Oregon mass shooting and there come two more incident of gun violence.

This is but a cartoon yet it says a thousand words.

Add ” .. and women” …. to the statement above.

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Student Is Killed in Shooting at Northern Arizona University

One student was killed and three were injured when an 18-year-old freshman opened fire early Friday. October 9, 2015, in a confrontation at Northern Arizona University’s campus in Flagstaff, continuing a week of violence and threats against college students across the country.

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Texas Schools Hit By Gun Violence

A gunman opened fire at a Texas university on Friday, October 9, 2015, killing one person and injuring another, marking the campus’ fourth reported shooting in just 13 days. The deadly incident came only days after a distinguished University of Texas at Austin professor announced that he was quitting his job because of what he felt was a heightened risk of gun violence on Texas college campuses.

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http://www.vocativ.com/news/238711/texas-schools-hit-by-gun-violence-and-more-guns-are-coming-to-campus/

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Adam Zygus, The Buffalo News

A dear blogger friend taught me this concept.

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“IOTD” is image of the day, a concept I came up with. I teach visual meditative therapy – or in easy terms – a mini mental holiday. For some people it is very difficult for them to get their image right. I post an image a day for people to use in their mini mental vacay. Some are serious, some are silly, and some are just beautiful!”

THIS ONE IS VERY SERIOUS TO ME

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We ALL are ONE!!

~~October 5, 2015~~

AN AMERICAN DISGRACE

Nothing new here.

It’s happened again and will continue to happen until there’s a national common goal in trying to curb this man-made epidemic.

The sales and ownership of guns continues to increase.

This problem is going to be really, really hard to solve. Many “factions” are involved and many different opinions and interests.

Oregon. Charleston. Lafayette. Aurora. Sandy Hook. Columbine. And the list goes on …

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Gun violence in the United States results in thousands of deaths and thousands more injuries annually. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2013, firearms (excluding BB and pellet guns) were used in 84,258 nonfatal injuries (26.65 per 100,000 U.S. citizens) and 11,208 deaths by homicide (3.5 per 100,000), 21,175 by suicide with a firearm, 505 deaths due to accidental discharge of a firearm, and 281 deaths due to firearms-use with “undetermined intent” for a total of 33,169 deaths related to firearms (excluding firearm deaths due to legal intervention). 1.3% of all deaths in the country were related to firearms.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States

President Obama is clearly fed up.

His speeches after mass shootings — speeches that have become a bit of a morbid ritual, given how regularly the shootings occur — have grown angrier, more emotional, and more disgusted at America’s gun violence problem and Congress’s unwillingness to do literally anything to stop it.

“This is a political choice that we make,” Obama declared Thursday night, October1. 2015. after the 294th mass shooting of 2015, “to allow this to happen every few months in America.”

But let’s be clear about precisely what kind of choice this is. Congress’s decision not to pass background checks is not what’s keeping the US from European gun violence levels. The expiration of the assault weapons ban is not behind the gap. What’s behind the gap, plenty of research indicates, is that Americans have more guns. The statistics are mind-blowing:

America has 4.4 percent of the world’s population but almost half of its civilian-owned guns.

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http://www.vox.com/2015/10/5/9454161/gun-violence-solution

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~~GALLERY~~

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~Gun Control: America’s Got A Gun Problem~

~Published on Jul 28, 2015~

Charleston. Lafayette. Aurora. Sandy Hook. Columbine. Mass gun shootings are almost always in the news, and nothing seems to stop them.

Why can’t America control its guns and its killers?

Note: At 0:29 in this video, we mistakenly used a picture from the Chattanooga attack instead of the Charleston mass shooting.