Bringing An End To The Lottery Of Gun Violence In The U.s.

Bennet Kelley, Huffington Post: Politics
Mon, 10/05/2015 - 10:17am

In the classic American short story "The Lottery," readers recoil with horror that a society would accept an annual ritual in which one of their members must be stoned. We sympathize with the victim as she pleads, "It isn't fair, it isn't right." Yet isn't that what we do in America every day?

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