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I need to take a pause.

It turns out the timing of my tongue-in-cheek #SpoutWar battle has coincided with a mass shooting. A school shooting.

Another one. In my home.

I work for UNLV. Beam Hall is a building central on campus. I know several of the students and faculty.

My daughter is one.
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Misha Ellison
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We're checking to make sure everyone is ok. My daughter has checked in, but we still need to hear from some of her friends.

All I can say is this:
It's just a matter of time.

It's just a matter of time before you or someone you know is involved in a mass shooting. I give it two years.
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Misha Ellison
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It doesn't have to be this way.

Fight like hell against the people who align with the terror of mass & school shootings being our daily experience.

Run for office if you can.
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Refuse to accept the excuses of the Second Amendment fetishists.

Even Scalia himself in the Heller decision wrote the 2A right is not unlimited, recognizing smart restrictions are consistent with the constitution.

Use this excerpt in every online discussion if you like. Force them to swallow it.
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I'm fine, and my family are fine. We'll check on our friends and see what we can do to help.

I need to repeat this:

It's only a matter of time, for every single person reading this, until you yourself or a person you directly know is involved in a mass shooting.

Let that sink in.
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But also let it sink in that that does not have to be an inevitability.

Fight like hell in whatever way you can, politically, socially, and otherwise to forge a different path.
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I'll be getting back to our #SpoutWar a little later, after we know our friends are okay. It was made for fun after all.

A lot of you have posted some wonderful and funny things to add to the playfight and I love you for it.

Let's tackle the real fight too.
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Iron Talon
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All hell will break out on the next presidential election as Trump is sending his army of crazies into predominately black districts to "watch" the election.
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Dıanna
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I actually thought we'd passed that point in the country already.
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Chris Young (he/his/him)
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My son was at Michigan State University during the shooting the last February. While he and his roommies were huddled in the basement with the lights off, the shooter came very near the house they were renting and they knew it from the police scanner.

We have to force the changes we need.
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