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Explaining U.S. Gun Laws To a Child

»Posted by on Apr 16, 2009 in Politics | 1 comment

So, I’m preparing breakfast for the kids this morning (my daughter is 12 and my son is 10; my son had a friend sleep over last night), when a rather interesting conversation took place. I was explaining to the kids why I was watching a news show (Countdown with Keith Olbermann) on my iPhone at the breakfast table, when the conversation then turned to President Obama. The kids are very smart and, as many german kids do, know a little about history, so it came as a total shock to them when I said to them that there are some Americans who compare Obama to Hitler, calling him a fascist, sozialist and a Nazi. They of course wanted to know why these people compare Obama to the greatest mass murderer in the history of man, so I explained a few of the reasons; fear...

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