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The pain the parents must be feeling is unimaginable and will never heal. This is an example of failure of society -- you give up freedoms to gain securities, but then these securities aren't delivered and you are left upset why the system has failed you, but you have not the freedom to do anything about it.

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The funny thing is, that in the United States we give up the day to day security of living in a society with fewer guns and much less gun violence because of the freedom citizens have to own guns.

I am not saying it really feasible to change the approach in the United States, but it's not really honest to claim that widespread firearms ownership does not have costs. The simple way to think about it is that it decreases the marginal cost, and increases the impact, of many things like suicides, and senseless rampages.

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