Finally, it must be acknowledged that many of these attacks today unfortunately take place in pretend "gun-free zones, " such as schools, movie theaters and shopping malls.

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Schools and colleges, movie theaters and wedding parties.

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And despite its depressing enumeration of the failure of so many schools, particularly in poorer urban areas, its miserable ending, and the bleakness of its title, the movie also has a message of hope: there are good schools and teachers in America, whose methods could make its education system as good as any in the world if only they were allowed to.

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The movie leaves the impression that charter schools are the only salvation for these children (and, by implication, for all American children), but, in the real world, charters do no better as a group than district schools, and often do worse.

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No one can argue that people who snap a photo of George Clooney as he exits a Pinkberry eating strawberry frozen yogurt or, worse, hang around outside grammar schools taking photos of someone's children deserve the same legal protection as those who create a movie, music or other work of art.

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He has built houses, schools, hospitals, youth centres, kindergartens, an airport and in the capital they even have a movie theatre with Dolby surround sound.

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