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An Elephant Is Wounded In Mississippi

The shooting of a circus animal outrages a nation. What if it had been a person?

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No decent soul could be glad that an elephant was shot in a drive-by.

But the Tupelo, Mississippi, police have to wonder about the uproar the shooting has caused, as compared with the shrug they have come to expect when a human is shot.

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