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Consider the 127 people who were murdered in Oakland last year and one similarity leaps out: all but 20 were shot to death.  
 
 
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There are certain things that are so evil we put on blinders, hoping that shielding our eyes will make them disappear. Things such as men old enough to be grandfathers flocking to Oakland from far and wide for the specific purpose of having sex with little girls.
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