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Excuse me for stating the obvious truth. I do so out of love for this country and the pain of learning, once again, that children have been killed by gun violence. If we as a country want to find the collective will within ourselves to change our gun laws, let’s stop playing silly political games. Show the carnage on the news. Show the American people the dead children and others who have been struck down. Show us what guns and bullets can do to the human body.

The news media need to be brave enough to let Americans see what slaughtered children look like. Otherwise, I fear that too many perceive gun violence as an abstract; a story that’s repeated nearly every day to numbing effect. When I was a teenager, there was a war in Vietnam. In the beginning, no one paid much attention to this problem in a foreign land until the media shouldered the responsibility and showed America how our sons were being slaughtered. Once those images were shown on TV, there was overwhelming demand for t

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Mellencamp, Tritt Unite

Democrat John Mellencamp and Republican Travis Tritt stood on a Nashville street corner Monday to make a bi-partisan plea for political civility.

The rock star and country singer were filming the video for their current duet, “What Say You,” from Tritt’s CD My Honky Tonk History. The two star as street musicians standing in front of a fictional Ruby’s Cafe, and the Chris Lenz-directed video will be interspersed with montages of Middle America. The video will be released in the coming weeks, and Mellencamp and Tritt plan to perform together on a number of television shows.

“It’s a very positive message,” Mellencamp says of the single, penned by songwriters Frank Myers and Michael Bradford. “It’s that we should be able to say what is on our minds and have an intelligent exchange of opinion — whether you’re left, right, middle or whatever — without suffering repercussions. For some reas