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Ahh, Thanksgiving: a classic American holiday to spend quality time at home with family, watch football games, not write final papers, and eat and sleep to your heart’s content.
Or is it?
Reading and watching the news this weekend, it seemed that in some parts of this country, the holiday season became a motivation for people to lose all sense of rationality and kill each other for the most senseless reasons.
As reported by numerous news sources, multiple deaths occurred around the United States on Black Friday. First, a temporary Wal-Mart worker, Jdimytai Damour, was killed as he opened the doors of a Wal-Mart in Long Island, New York. As soon as the store opened at 5am, the customers rushed in, trampling and killing him. Then, in Palm Desert, California, two men fatally shot each other while shopping in a Toys”R”Us.
I have one question: What is wrong with us?
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