Chapter 16-Las Vegas-Part 2
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They had been friends for 38 years; both nurses, both celebrating their 40th birthdays in the ONLY place to celebrate, Las Vegas. After a big steak dinner, they headed to a country festival, 2 comped tickets in hand...and walked into a massacre.
"Somehow this has become routine! The reporting is routine, my response, here at this podium ends up being routine, the conversation in the aftermath of it, we've become numb to this. We talked about this after Columbine and Blacksburg, after Tucson, after Newtown, after Aurora, after Charlestown. It cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun." President Obama, 10/01/2015, after Umpqua Community College shooting
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