"We want to raise awareness about this issue and shine a light on how important it is to keep the internet free and open to one and all, " said Raging Granny Gail Sredanovic.

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"You watch the news all the time and you see things like this happening up in the bigger states like Texas and California, but here in our little community you would never expect anything like this to have happened, " said Nell Herring, owner of Granny's Country Kitchen restaurant in tiny Kinston, where alleged gunman Michael McLendon lived with his mother, Lisa, whom police say he also killed.

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Police said he had apparently barricaded himself into a granny flat behind the property, put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

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And I think the reason that the Rose Addis case had such resonance with the public is that people looked at that case and said well actually something similar happened to my granny, something similar happened to my next door neighbour.

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"No-one can tell me that raping a three-month-old baby or 87-year-old granny or burning a library or vandalising a school is caused by poverty, " said trade union federation leader Zwelenzima Vavi, in a recent Tweet exchange.

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Joan Dudley, owner of Granny's Ice Cream Shanty, which is less than a mile from the crash site, said she and her employees saw the plane flip, then fall apart Friday night.

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