--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > And the world suddenly becomes all sugar plum-y > and perfect and Age Of Enlightenment-y because > of the HUUUUUUGE shift in the planetary energies > that happened yesterday, right. Hey...I know... > let's look at the News to see how the world is > coping with it being such a Heaven On Earth, eh?
By the way, before someone freaks out and has a Nitpick Attack and chokes to death on her own bile, the following list of headlines are not from one day's news in the United States. They're from *seven* days' news -- these are all the gun- related deaths and injuries in the week since the school shootings in Connecticut. Just as a comparison, the number of dead and injured during this fairly normal week in America (over 100) is larger than the number of people killed or injured in the Netherlands in firearm- related incidents in the last year and a half. > 3 Shot And Killed In Mich... 18-Year-Old Shot Multiple > Times, Dies... Man Kills Wife, Teen, Himself... Man > Shoots, Kills Own Son... Cops Shoot Teen Dead... Man > Gunned Down In Parking Lot... 5 Dead In Spate Of > Shootings... 2 Murdered In Philly... 2 Kansas Cops Shot > Dead... Shooter Killed... 4 Die In Apparent Murder-Suicide... > Ga. Cop Dies From Gunshot... Argument Leads Teen To Shoot > Friend... Man Shot To Death... Teen Dies After Being Tied > Up, Shot... Man Shot Dead In Street... Drug Deal Leads To > Shooting Death... Mother Of 2 Killed In Road Rage Shooting... > Man Shoots, Kills Intruder... 1 Killed In Coney Island... > Man Dies From Gunshot Wounds... Cops Investigate Gun Death... > Shooting Victim's Body Found On Bike Trail... Man Charged > With Shooting Own Brother Dead... Man Dies After Being Shot > In Chest... Body Of Shooting Victim Found In Pickup... Teen > Arrested For Robbery Shooting Death... Man Carrying 2-Year- > Old Son Shot Dead... Man Fatally Shot Near Home... Parolee > Dies In Shooting... 1 Killed In Buffalo Shooting... Man > Shot Dead In Apartment Complex... Street Gun Battle Kills > Grandma Bystander... Man, Woman Dead In Apparent Murder- > Suicide... Woman Shot Dead By Intruder... 14-Year-Old > Arrested Over Fatal Gun Attack... Man Found Shot Dead In > Parking Lot... Woman Shot In Face By Ex-Boyfriend... > 1 Woman, 3 Men Shot Dead... 2 Die In Attempted Robbery... > Army Reservist Shot To Death In Alley... Man Shot To Death > In Bodega... 2 Shot Dead In Burned House... Man Shot During > Break-In... Man Fatally Shot... 20-Year-Old Gunned Down... > Man Shoots Self During Police Pursuit... 1 Killed In > Baltimore Shooting... Cops ID Shooting Victim... 60-Year- > Old Man Shot Dead... Shot Man's Body Found In Vacant > House.... Woman Shot And Killed Outside Her Home... > Shooting Victim Was 'Trying To Turn Life Around'... Slain > Shooting Victim Found In Street.... Driving Altercation > Leads To Shooting, 1 Dies... 3-Year-Old Dies In Accidental > Shooting... Man Turns Self In After Allegedly Shooting > Wife... Man Shot Dead Outside Home... 3 Slain In Separate > New Orleans Shootings... Cops Investigate Shooting Death... > Man Shot Dead In Ohio... Teen Shot To Death... Man Dies > After Being Shot Multiple Times... Man Charged Over Son's > Shooting Death... Cops Find 2 Men Shot Dead... 1 Dies In > Shooting... Man Charged Over Gun Killing... 1 Shot Dead > In Confrontation... Man Charged With Murder Over Shooting... > Motel-Owner Shot And Killed... Husband Shoots Estranged > Wife Dead... Suspect Arrested Over Deputy's Shooting > Death... Police Probe Fatal Shooting... Cops Kill 2 > Suspects In 3 Shooting Deaths... Man Killed Fighting Back > Against Robber... Man Killed In Home Invasion.... > Nightclub Shooting Kills 1... Child Brain Dead After > Drive By Shooting... Man Charged Over Shooting Of Ex-Wife... > Body Found In Vacant House... Teen Fatally Shot... > > That's *one morning's headlines* in America, now > that the Glorious New Age is finally upon us. > > Here in the Netherlands, things are somewhat quieter. > Scanning the local news, I see that the Big Story is > about the guy who imbibed a bit too much Christmas > cheer and drove his bicycle into the canal. Bystanders > pulled him out. No one was shot, in the entire country.