Remembering the Bowling Green massacre
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Kellyanne Conway's citation of a massacre in Bowling Green -- a massacre that didn't ever happen -- has certainly spawned a fair amount of head-scratching and jokes on the Interwebs.
For sheer brilliance in response, we're going to say this is what wins the internet today.
The Bowling Green Massacre Victims Fund website says:
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We all still carry the vivid memories of what horrors occurred at Bowling Green, but some still relive those moments everyday as they work to rebuild a community torn apart.
The link to donate to the fund goes to the ACLU.
Second-prize honors for winning the Internet today goes to...
As an aside, the U.S. House has voted to overturn a rule designed to prevent the severely mentally ill from buying guns.
The rule was implemented after the Sandy Hook Massacre, in which a mentally ill man shot and killed 20 6- and 7-year-olds and six adults.
That massacre actually did happen.