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To: redfish who wrote (10776)	5/14/2004 8:46:48 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 20773

Thanks for the reply. What is it about this particular murder that angers and outrages you? Everything. You want me to pick one thing - the selection of an innocent man for a grisly murder as a representative of America, of you and me, our families, all of us. What they did to this guy is what they'd like to do to all of us. I want to kill the people who did this. I would like to see them punished, OK. but I can't say I feel much anger or outrage. Amazing. But OK.

To: redfish who wrote (10776)	5/14/2004 8:53:27 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

When I came to Washington a few weeks ago, the top story on the local news the day we arrived was a nine-year-old girl in a poor neighborhood in DC who was sitting on her sofa watching TV. A stray bullet from a neighborhood shooting came through the window and killed her. No one noticed outside the local scene. Where is the outrage? "Ordinary" tragedies are totally ignored now. Any claim that America has deep-seated, consistent principles about the value of human life is absurd, and easily controverted by the evidence. I don't see any presidential candidate running on the "no child shot at home" platform. Why?