School shootouts is the price of America's fascination for guns

POLITICS. .

The Northern Illinois University shootout today comes 10 months after 32 students and staff were shot dead by a Virginia Tech University student. It is also the fourth shooting at a US education establishment in a week.

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# Any attempt to control the right to possess guns is considered to be a violation of American constitution which mandates "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

# Owning firearms is embedded in the American psyche like a splinter of flint, jagged and immovable.

# No gun law proposals tackles the problem of removing the vast number of guns that are already in circulation in US.

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