If there is one thing the carnage of the last few months has proven, it is that we are all human, and all too human. We may listen to Mozart and celebrate Einstein, yet we drag along some truly awful traits. Muslim or Christian, we descend into the madness of murderous fanaticism. Liberal or conservative, we vent our anger by screaming invective at our brothers and sisters and stopping our ears to all reason. Just days apart, an End Times Bible-thumper and a married Muslim couple sprayed innocent people with bullets and tried to deploy bombs to kill even more. In the sulphurous haze of such atrocities, a war of words has erupted in America over guns, blame, and politics. Its tone tells all....
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