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Politicians instinctively understand that limiting access to any gun is un-American and indeed it is. To be armed is to be American; to shoot first and ask questions later is how this land was acquired; which is why it is nonsensical to the average citizen to relinquish their personal desires to imitate their favorite episode of Bonanza or Gunsmoke or video games such as Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto.

In 2010, 27 people were killed by gun homicide in the U.K.; in California and Texas there were 2,255 gun homicides.

I found the anemic response by The White House and the president to the senseless death of Hadiya Pendleton very tragic.

William “Mo” Cowan, 43, and Tim Scott, 46, both have deep Southern roots. Senator Scott was born in Charleston, South Carolina. His parents divorced when Scott was seven years old. Scott and his brother were raised by mother, Francis Scott, who worked 16 hour days as a nurse’s aide, sustaining her family on welfare benefits.

When citizens see our government’s penchant for handling disputes abroad with violence, what do we expect many to do when they’re faced with problematic challenges at home? Isn’t the levels of violence afflicting American streets an outgrowth of Washington’s violent disposition?

For the dangers of triumphalism, Hollande need only recall Libya and his predecessor Nikolas Sarkozy’s single-handed vendetta there. Following months of bombings by NATO, primarily by the French and British air forces, Muammar al-Quathafi’s government fell and he was murdered.

The Emancipation Proclamation applied to 3.1 million slaves, but only freed about 70,000 right away. The rest, like my grandmother’s grandparents, would have to wait until the union army advanced south to end the war.

There are other things buried under Timbuktu. Locals here have long stashed ancient documents under the brick floors of their houses, or under furniture, out of an enduring fear of invading armies.

Additionally, provisions to let certain populations of immigrants in over others will create a two-tiered system that will only further back-up the already extensive log-jam of those looking to legally apply for citizenship.

So, in addition to $10 billion dating from 2005, Congo is owed potentially billions more as a result of the crimes committed since then by its unfriendly neighbors Uganda and Rwanda. And as far back as 2000, the United Nations had already recommended that Congolese businesses were entitled to compensation from Uganda and Rwanda.