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Elementary School shooting prompts celebrity endorsement of gun control on Twitter

As a response to a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut celebrities use their likes to endorse gun control via Twitter.
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School shooting prompts celebrity endorsement of gun control on Twitter. UPI/Brian Kersey
School shooting prompts celebrity endorsement of gun control on Twitter. UPI/Brian Kersey 
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Updated Dec. 14, 2012 at 4:33 PM
Published: Dec. 14, 2012 at 2:21 PM

The debate on gun control exploded on Twitter fallowing the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut where reportedly 27 people were killed (18 of them children).

Even though White House spokesman Jay Carney was quick to announce that today was not a day to discuss policy on the matter of gun control, the masses, celebrities included, decided to voice their opinion on the subject on Twitter.

Here's what some of them had to say,














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