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

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

 


 
 

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