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Gun Control Reform Activism

billh58

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2. Even though the NYT believes that a child's death

Reply to billh58 (Original post)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 02:35 PM

Jun 2014

at a Boy Scout Camp is important enough to warrant carrying nationally, and includes a statement from BSA National Headquarters, this is a DU opinion:

"Although in the NYTimes, it is an AP story and not 'important news of national interest'"

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/06/30/us/ap-us-boy-scout-camp-death.html?ref=aponline

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

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Boy Dies of Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound at Boy Scout Camp: SDPD [View all] billh58 Jun 2014 OP

another sacrifice at the alter of gun lovers samsingh Jun 2014 #1

Even though the NYT believes that a child's death billh58 Jun 2014 #2

this wasn't considered important enough news barbtries Jun 2014 #3

According to the Second Amendment absolutists billh58 Jun 2014 #4

Now there's one load of shit defacto7 Jun 2014 #5

Using the NRA's tactics, a faction billh58 Jul 2014 #6