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Twitter Account Records Every Gun Death in U.S., Canada

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Tweeting every gun death in North America regardless of cause and without comment. Help us tell the story behind the statistics.

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That's less than half - considerably less - of just today's entries.

Via Piers Morgan.

P.S. Yes, it says "North America" - but in comments they say it's just U.S. and Canada.

Former Aussie PM John Howard in the NY Times on Gun Law

Excerpt:

I was elected prime minister in early 1996, leading a center-right coalition. Virtually every nonurban electoral district in the country — where gun ownership was higher than elsewhere — sent a member of my coalition to Parliament.

Six weeks later, on April 28, 1996, Martin Bryant, a psychologically disturbed man, used a semiautomatic Armalite rifle and a semiautomatic SKS assault weapon to kill 35 people in a murderous rampage in Port Arthur, Tasmania.

After this wanton slaughter, I knew that I had to use the authority of my office to curb the possession and use of the type of weapons that killed 35 innocent people. I also knew it wouldn’t be easy.

Stephen Colbert on Guns

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Waterkeepers: Protecting Waterways Around the World

Edward J. Olmos narrates video highlighting waterway protectors:

 

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Deaf Twins Going Blind 'Commit Euthanasia'

Suicide news:

BRUSSELS (AFP) - Deaf Belgian identical twins used a decade-old euthanasia law in a mercy-killing pact after they began to go blind, Flemish media has reported.

In what was presented as a unique case, the 45-year-old men from the Antwerp area who shared a bedroom all their lives began to encounter problems with their sight several years ago, Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper said according to French-language reports.

Brussels doctors backed the twins' demand to be allowed to die on December 14 last year, even though neither man was suffering from any terminal illness.

The doctor who presided over the euthanasia, David Dufour, told RTL television news: "They were very happy. It was a relief to see the end of their suffering.

"They had a cup of coffee in the hall, it went well and a rich conversation. The the separation from their parents and brother was very serene and beautiful. "At the last there was a little wave of their hands and then they were gone."

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