Tornado Alley (PROG)

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oldberkeley -- was hoping against hope the news on that wouldn't get worse

no such luck, apparently:

More Than a Dozen Killed, Including Children, at Connecticut Elementary School Shooting
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dozen-killed-including-children-connecticut-elementary-school-shooting/story?id=17973836

with close to 1 gun per capita already in circulation in private hands here ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country ), we can come to our senses all we want -- not that we shouldn't; we should, indeed must if we don't want to see much more/worse, gotta start bending the curve step by step at some point, no time better than right now -- but we're gonna be stuck with this kind of thing for a long time in any event -- . . .