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and a lot of careers off of it.
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And so, there's
vested interests,

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a lot of activity
to keep us afraid.

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- And what better way to fight
box-cutter-wielding terrorists

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than to order a record number
of fighter jets

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from Lockheed?
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Yes, everyone felt safer,
especially with the army

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doing garbage detail
on Park Avenue.

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And the greatest benefit
of all of a terrorized public

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is that the corporate
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and political leaders can get
away with just about anything.

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- I've never seen
a better example

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of cash-and-carry government
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than this Bush administration
and Enron.

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- There were a lot of things
that I didn't know

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after the World Trade Center
attack,

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but one thing was clear:
whether it was before or after

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September 11th, a public that's
this out of control with fear

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should not have a lot of guns
or ammo laying around.

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- Well, I was shot with a Tech-9.
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- Nine millimetre?
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- Yeah. Yeah, I was, uh...
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I guess it was supposed
to be semi-automatic,

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but it kind of seemed like
fully automatic to me,

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from what I remember.
- This is Richard Costaldo.

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And this is Mark Taylor.
Both of these boys were shot

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the day of
the Columbine massacre.

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Richard is paralyzed for life
and in a wheelchair.

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And Mark is barely standing
after numerous operations.

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- The kids at Columbine
had to pay a penalty.

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We paid a penalty that day...
for this nation.

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The way we look at it.
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- Mark and Richard were disabled
and suffering

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from the 17-cent K-Mart bullets
still embedded in their bodies.

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As they showed me the various
entry points for the bullets,

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I thought of one way
we could reduce

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the number of guns and bullets
laying around. I asked the boys

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if they'd like to go to K-Mart
to return the merchandise.

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- Ready?
- You... you go.


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