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Gun fever: Baffling phenomenon

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Gun hysteria sweeping West Virginia's Legislature in the wake of Connecticut's grade school massacre is mystifying. We hope psychologists explain why the mass slaughter of first-graders stampeded many Americans to clamor for more gun-carrying. We can't understand. It seems irrational.

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Gun fever: Baffling phenomenon

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Gun hysteria sweeping West Virginia's Legislature in the wake of Connecticut's grade school massacre is mystifying. We hope psychologists explain why the mass slaughter of first-graders stampeded many Americans to clamor for more gun-carrying. We can't understand. It seems irrational.

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