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Stuff happens?

Stuff happens? Is Jeb Bush serious? This is the cost of freedom in America. Any of us could be murdered in a movie theater, a college classroom or anywhere by a crazed man wearing body armor and brandishing a half of a dozen guns.

Today, the Second Amendment allows a lonely man with poor social skills to legally purchase many guns and take out his frustrations on society by killing as many people as he can before killing himself.

Irving Gerson, Miami

This story was originally published October 10, 2015 at 1:00 PM with the headline "Stuff happens?."

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