Outrage is spreading across the country in the wake of the mass shooting at Rob Elementary School.

The complete failure and cowardice on the part of the police allowed the killer to carry out the massacre.

And the gun manufacturers, who profit while mass shootings devastate the country,

are given special legal protections, how are the arms

industry capitalists shielded from accountability?

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Professor Wolf, so unbelievable tragedy at Rob Elementary School. I mean, so many young children

gunned down. I mean, it's just unbelievable breathtaking the violence.

At the same time, I mean, at the same time as the massacre was unfolding in the aftermath of the massacre was unfolding,

the NRA, the National Rifle Association, was having their convention in the very same state in Texas.

I mean, the NRA postures as this, you know, movement, grassroots movement,

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