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Sydney Morning Herald (May 30)

2022/ 05/ 31 by jd in Global News

“The tragedy playing out in Uvalde, Texas, the last few days – 21 dead, including 19 children, in yet another massacre at an American primary school – is sourced in a mix of corruption, neglect, and fecklessness that, to use a biblical term, passeth all understanding.” The tragedy did succeed in busting the myth that we need good guys with guns to stop the bad guys with guns. The good guys failed this time. “Trained police officers fell back and cowered, while a killer with a weapon of mass destruction went about his malevolent business.”

 

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