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Criminal

Jul. 30, 2015

Mass shootings, America's new normal

Wherever you fall on the gun control issue, no remotely rational person can deny that we've had an extremely bad run of late.

Julie L. Kessler

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Manhattan Beach , CA 90267-1582

Phone: (310) 403-0009

Email: Julie@VagabondLawyer.com

George Washington Univ Law School

Julie is an attorney based in Los Angeles, a freelance writer for several publications, and the author of the award-winning book "Fifty-Fifty, The Clarity of Hindsight." She can be reached at www.VagabondLawyer.com

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On assignment for another publication, I was in the Russian Far East mid-month heading towards Northern Japan when the ship's captain informed us that we would have to depart earlier than scheduled in an attempt to get around Typhoon Nangku. This was no small dinghy, but a thousand-foot-long ship weighing in at nearly 116,000 tons. Avoiding the typhoon's onslaught completely was not in the cards. If you've ever ridden on the back of an Epileptic r...

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