1.0 link 77173 <![CDATA[Message To Candidates For President: Take A Real Stand Against Gun Violence]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-helmke/message-to-candidates-for_b_77173.html In less than a week, two disturbed gunmen used military-style assault weapons to murder 12 people in America - first in Omaha, then in Colorado.

These shootings continue a long trail of carnage that included the Virginia Tech campus eight months ago. The shooter there used semi-automatic pistols and high-capacity ammunition magazines to fire almost 175 rounds [pdf] in about ten minutes. He shot 49 people and killed 32 in the worst mass-shooting in modern American history.

All this violence...

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