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Rex Huppke: A Florida high school massacre and guns: A requiem for sanity

Seventeen dead in a high school. South Florida.

A former student, 19. Armed to the teeth. A semi-automatic AR-15 rifle. Made to kill.

Police officers running to the school, machine guns drawn. A mother texting her son to turn off his phone's ringer so the killer with the rifle won't hear it and find him.

A slaughter.

Seventeen dead. At a high school. In America.

It has happened before,

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