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If the increasing grimness of the breaking news about Virginia Tech and Cho are beginning to tear at your nerves, you should definitely need to read this beautiful and eloquent tribute by Callimachus at "Done with Mirrors" ("Who We Are")
If you're tired of hearing about guns, gun control laws, why it was the fault of the law, why it wasn't the fault of the guns, how more guns would have helped, how fewer guns wouldn't have mattered, how it reflected a failure in the courage and moral fiber of young Americans, and how Cho was born in South Korea, read this note at Ambivablog. When the red flag is flapping right in our faces, why do we tell ourselves it's not our problem to solve or not our business to intervene? "What we need to do is not so much ban guns or, conversely, arm all the good guys, as get serious about identifying these human time bombs, believe them when they tell us in a thousand ways how very deadly they are." ("What He Wanted.")
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