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The prospect of universal massacre understandably puts stress upon anything constraining the scope of actions to prevent it, but the prospect of forced alterations, set-backs or radical changes to a way of life must be less threatening.
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She's endorsed the gun control measures sought in vain by Obama after the Sandy Hook massacre, including universal background checks.
In the Western world, the almost universal response to this massacre is not just to condemn its barbarity but to decry its assault on the freedom of speech, and in particular on the freedom of the press, which presumably includes the right to draw as well as say anything one wishes.
Allowing this means guaranteeing that our kids and future generations will bear witness, and carry the burden of another massacre...another blow to the very universal things that make us human.
As an example, Glaze cites the gun lobby's past opposition to (and eventual defeat of) a universal gun background check bill closely following the Newtown massacre, the 2012 shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead.
When I began my book leave, it seemed likely that the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut would impel Congress to approve universal background checks for gun purchases.
To those who say it is people and not guns that kill people, I say that while mental illness and murderous behavior is universal, semi-automatic weapons are multipliers that turn individual tragedies into community massacres.
After viewing Bloody Sunday, Greengrass's Bafta-winning treatment of the massacre by British troops of civil-rights marchers in Londonderry in January 1972, the actor called Universal and urged them to hire its director.
The Sandy Hook massacre even caused the U.S. Senate to attempt to take action to tighten gun regulations with universal background checks, including for gun show and online sales.
In the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in Manchester, 11 people were killed and 400 injured when local militia waded into a crowd of radicals campaigning for universal suffrage.
And a massacre is a massacre.
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