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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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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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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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So sorry - glad your daughter is ok. Hoping you hear from others soon that they are all safe. My brother-in-law’s brother teaches at Beam Hall and we’ve heard he is safe. This is so maddening. It doesn’t have to be this way. 😡
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I'm fine are not the words I would expect to hear in this context. It's slightly disturbing to think that you might be going about your day as normal. So I've taken the liberty of reinterpreting that phrase to mean I'm rattled; I'm upset but I have found my focus and I'm making my way through.
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