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in the Sunshine and Mountain States.
Just like the title to your car, "Title" to a piece of property is a bundle of rights, including use of the land, water, and minerals on a piece of land. Those rights can be split up between different parties. For instance, you can own the rights to the ground on a piece of property, while I can hold the rights to the minerals found in that ground. In West Virginia, it is very common for minerals rights not to convey with surface (ground rights); mineral rights have often been sold off to mining companies.Yesterday, a young man killed nine people at a small college in Oregon. Witnesses said he asked them their religion; if they said, "Christian," he shot them in the head. If they weren't Christians, the witnesses said, he only shot them in the legs.
You can argue, as one talking head already has, that it, "wasn't really Christians he was after," he just wanted notoriety and figured the Christian angle would do it. While I won't argue he probably desired infamy, he didn't ask his victims if they were chess players, or atheists, or Huskies fans, or white supremacists, or counted cross-stitchers. He specifically sought Christians as targets – an increasingly popular pastime, in one form or another, here and around the world.
I don't know the names of his Christian victims, whether they were men or women, young or old, or who grieves for them today. Nor can I imagine their last thoughts. But I know this: though they faced death they did not...
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