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59. My mother was teacher in an elementary school for 35 years, She was teaching to kids between 6 and 9

It was in France, in a rural school, and, even though there were many guns for hunting, such a tragedy would not have been thinkable (gun culture is far from being as prevalent as in this country).

What is frightening in this story, and in many of the stories before that, is that the killers were not criminals or terrorists, but people who were undetected as mentally ill, had access to guns legally, and that still the gun lobby (including here) continues to say that nothing should change.

At the same time, gun culture and violence continues to be prevalent on TV and in the movies. I went with my son to the movies and while the movie itself was a romantic comedy, all previews but two involved shooting and violence by the good guys. I know I have a cultural gap on these issues (though I grew up in an area where guns existed, but not the notion that you had to have a gun). I wonder if this has changed, though I have not heard anything that senselessly tragic and meaningless.