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America's National Rifle Association (NRA) is still silent on the mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut, USA in which 27 people , including 20 children aged six and seven. Two days after the massacre, the USA's powerful pro-gun organisation has yet to any kind of statement on the tragedy that has America. The mass murder of 20 innocent children by a gunman seems to have the NRA into silence. The "Huffington Post" about the NRA's disappearance from social media sites since the tragedy, saying: "The NRA has from both Twitter and Facebook since the events that on Friday."

The NRA on Facebook the day before the killings that it had 1.7 million fans. The organization's Facebook page has now completely . Clicking on the link in a Google search sends you to your own timeline. Many Americans are now more than ever whether owning a gun should be a right. Stories of multiple shootings are a regular part of American news, to the extent that many no longer get a headline. In other countries, such tragedies national soul searching. President Obama has to take "meaningful action" on gun control, although he has yet to on what that means. Americans now a battle on the future of gun ownership and the right to arms.

 


 
 

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