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It has only occasionally gotten a foothold, too, Ed.

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With respect to your author’s note, I am grateful for your words because they articulate the rage that I have been unable to voice adequately. I don’t have any interest in engaging with anyone who isn’t at least as angry as you. That is where we should all be.

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Thanks, Lisa. I am just worried that if I get any angrier my head or heart will explode.

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To the point, as usual. Thank you for staying tbe course and not letting time reduce the importance of focusing on the guns.

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Thanks, Caroline. Not sure I'd know how to quit even if I decided I wanted to.

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It’s all such common sense, but to George Carlin’s point, common sense isn’t in charge.

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I am not sure it ever has been, Ed.

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Bravo, Jim. Keep boring down on the easy access to weapons... (made easier by "open carry") ...the political masquerade that was the Governor's initial news conference after the Uvalde shooting (with the assembled Texas "Troika" of Abbott, Patrick and Cruz all jostling to be in camera range but nowhere to be seen when the truth as painfully relayed by the DPS Commander Steven McCraw started to dribble out..) and, in the coming week, when, in Washington, more clear evidence is unveiled of just how far some in positions of highest authority and their supporters have gone and will continue to go to dismantle 2 and a half centuries plus of painful effort to create that still elusive "more perfect union."

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Thanks, John. I almost believe the police failure and coverup is a crime of equal proportions to the murder. Without their incompetence and lies this might have not happened. And now they are justifying their cowardice. Don't put on the badge unless you are willing to take great risks, eh?

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Bravo, Jim. Keep boring down on the easy access to weapons... (made easier by "open carry") ...the political masquerade that was the Governor's initial news conference after the Uvalde shooting (with the assembled Texas "Troika" of Abbott, Patrick and Cruz all jostling to be in camera range but nowhere to be seen when the truth as painfully relayed by the DPS Commander Steven McCraw started to dribble out..) and, in the coming week, when, in Washington, more clear evidence is unveiled of just how far some in positions of highest authority and their supporters have gone and will continue to go to dismantle 2 and a half centuries plus of painful effort to create that still elusive "more perfect union."

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Thank you James for allowing your anger to shine through. Nothing short of limiting access to guns will ever reduce gun violence in this country, and our state's refusal to acknowledge the problem sends me into fits of anger and despair. I'm physically ill from living this way year after year..

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Thanks, Sonny, for getting engaged here. I'd prefer to be happy rather than angry, but since I know stuff and I've lived it up close and have certain insights, I feel like I have an obligation to say certain things. And I will.

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