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America's National Rifle Association (NRA) is still [staying / stayed] silent on the mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut, USA in which 27 people died, including 20 children aged six and seven. Two days after the [massacre / massacred] , the USA's powerful [pre-gun / pro-gun] organisation has [yet / so far] to make any kind of statement on the tragedy that has [shaken / rotten] America. The mass murder of 20 [innocent / innocence] children by a gunman seems to have [stamped / stunned] the NRA into silence. The "Huffington Post" writes about the NRA's disappearance from social [medium / media] sites since the [tragedy / tragic] , saying: "The NRA has disappeared from both Twitter and Facebook since the events that [occurred / occurrence] on Friday."

The NRA announced on Facebook the day before the killings that it had [accumulated / accumulates] 1.7 million fans. The organization's Facebook page has now [completely / completion] vanished. Clicking on the link in a Google search [sends / invites] you to your own timeline. Many Americans are now questioning more than [never / ever] whether owning a gun should be a [right / wrong] . Stories of multiple shootings are a [regular / regularly] part of American news, to the [extent / extend] that many no longer get a headline. In other countries, such tragedies [prompt / promotion] national soul searching. President Obama has promised to take "meaningful action" on gun control, although he has yet to [expand / expend] on what that means. Americans now expect a battle on the future of gun ownership and the right to [bear / bare] arms.