http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2007/04/wednesday-night-1311/ Where the world comes together Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:20:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2007/04/wednesday-night-1311/#comment-393 Diana Thébaud Nicholson Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:40:03 +0000 http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2007/04/wednesday-night-1311/#comment-393 <strong>David Mitchell OWN</strong>, who had posed the question: "if something happens and a TV camera was not there, did it really happen?" subsequently forwarded the following, unfortunately without attribution, for our consideration: "... what we saw at Virginia Tech was just a concentrated node of a larger, nationwide killing spree that goes on day after day in the USA. Eighty thousand Americans take a bullet from a handgun in any year. Thirty thousand die. That's one thousand shooting deaths off-camera for each victim at Virginia Tech." David Mitchell OWN, who had posed the question: “if something happens and a TV camera was not there, did it really happen?” subsequently forwarded the following, unfortunately without attribution, for our consideration: “… what we saw at Virginia Tech was just a concentrated node of a larger, nationwide killing spree that goes on day after day in the USA. Eighty thousand Americans take a bullet from a handgun in any year. Thirty thousand die. That’s one thousand shooting deaths off-camera for each victim at Virginia Tech.”

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