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Life in the American Slaughterhouse: Beyond Aurora, Guns Are Going Off Everywhere

Stephan Salisbury @ Tom Dispatch - Welcome to the abattoir -- a nation where a man can walk into a store and buy an assault rifle, a shotgun, a couple of Glocks; where in the comfort of his darkened living room, windows blocked from the sunlight, he can rig a series of bombs unperturbed and buy thousands of rounds of ammo on the Internet; where a movie theater can turn into a killing floor at the midnight hour.  Read more.

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