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Events in arab pa show and the community and collected close to $12,000 and collecting whatever we can to help the family out and help them through this and heal ourselves through this. >> tell me about claire. what kind of girl is she? >> claire seemed really nice. she had a lot of friends and she loved to ride horses and all that kind of stuff. >> in terms of colorado, and the number of incidents we've now had in the state, columbine, the aurora tragedy, why do you think these mass shootings and individual shooting incidents, why colorado? >> i really don't know why colorado. it's just -- it...

Gun-related wonk erie and data after the aurora, colorado shootings this summer. he says today in the "washington post," at this time when we first collected much of this data, the air was thick with calls to avoid politicizing the aurora tragedy. ezra writes that is code, essentially, for don't talk about reforming our gun control laws. let's be clear that is a form of politicization. it is just a form of politicization favoring those who prefer the status quo. since then there have been more high profile shootings, ezra rights. jovan belcher took his girlfriend's life and then his own. in or...

Tighter gun control laws are correlated with fewer gun-related deaths. and that is correlation, that is not causation, but it's good to know, right? ezra said today when -- ezra said today he first started to put together this index of gun-related wonkery and data after the aurora, colorado shootings this summer. he says today in the "washington post," "at this time when we first collected much of this data, the air was thick with calls to avoid politicizing the aurora tragedy." ezra writes that is code, essentially, for don't talk about reforming our gun control laws. "let's be clear that is ...

Young americans shot in milwaukee or cleveland. violence plagues the biggest cities, but it also plagues the smallest towns. it claims the lives of americans of different ages and different races, and it's tied together by the fact that these young people had dreams and had futures that were cut tragically short. and when there is an extraordinarily heartbreaking tragedy like the one we saw, there is always an outcry immediately after for action. and there is talk of new reforms, and there is talk of new legislation. and too often those efforts are defeated by politics and by lobbying and even...

He said today from aurora, "our hearts go out to the people of newtown." colorado's senator michael bennet said today, "as coloradans, we know how this type of tragedy can shake a community to its core. we are here for connecticut today." colorado's governor, john hickenlooper, he said, "we know too well what impact this kind of violence has on a community." he said that the first thing he wanted to do today was talk to his counterpart governor in connecticut, dan malloy. governor hickenlooper said, "i cannot put into words how impossible it seems to me that this can happen again so suddenly."...