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kpete

(71,997 posts)
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 12:48 PM Jul 2012

Nothing is enough. Columbine wasn't enough. This won't be enough.

“Well, it’s nice to see people have things in perspective before the blood has dried.
http://michellemalkin.com/2012/07/20/movie-theater-shooting-in-aurora-co-12-dead-50-injured-suspect-in-custody/

“Because, really, it’s all about them. And their pet issues. And the gnomes that scuttle about their frontal lobes.

“I would like to recommend that, when an event like what happened in Aurora occurs, we all give ourselves a decent interval before wedging the bloodshed into the stifling cliches that pass for our current political dialogue. Maybe a day, maybe a week. Then, we can start arguing again about why it’s so goddamn easy in this country to outfit yourself to go to the movies as though you were coming ashore at Saipan. Then, we can start defending Rush Limbaugh, or excoriating HollyWeird. I just think it’s indecent to do it as soon as the sun comes up the next day.

“… Seriously, there isn’t anything to say right now. Everything is diversion, distraction, and evasion of the simple fact that someone very much like the rest of us walked into a movie theater, opened fire, and killed a dozen or so more people just like the rest of us. James Holmes is the bell, tolling, tolling. That’s all he is right now. To assume anything else is to wrap yourself in trivia against the storm.”


For we know in our hearts that nothing is going to be done.
The only great movement toward gun control will continue to exist only in the voices that ring in the heads of people like Wayne LaPierre. The only serious talk about the inchoate rage and barely incipient violence that seems to be in the air around us will come from people who can't get themselves on television very much, because they don't have enough inchoate rage to make good guests of themselves. Nothing is enough. Columbine wasn't enough. This won't be enough.

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Aurora_Shooting#ixzz21BLwKk4g

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Nothing is enough. Columbine wasn't enough. This won't be enough. (Original Post) kpete Jul 2012 OP
Eliminating the GOP is the ONLY step to ensure full elimination of all guns BanTheGOP Jul 2012 #1
Post removed Post removed Jul 2012 #5
Look out below Kingofalldems Jul 2012 #2
Considering the NRA sells more guns... gregoire Jul 2012 #3
The NRA doesn't sell guns hack89 Jul 2012 #4
Why, why aren't we more willing to give up rights for vague promises of security 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #6
 

BanTheGOP

(1,068 posts)
1. Eliminating the GOP is the ONLY step to ensure full elimination of all guns
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 01:13 PM
Jul 2012

Otherwise, they will keep on rubbing the 2nd Amendment (circa 1789) in our faces.

Response to BanTheGOP (Reply #1)

 

gregoire

(192 posts)
3. Considering the NRA sells more guns...
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 01:23 PM
Jul 2012

every time there's a mass shooting, doesn't it make you wonder?

 

4th law of robotics

(6,801 posts)
6. Why, why aren't we more willing to give up rights for vague promises of security
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 01:49 PM
Jul 2012

9/11 wasn't enough for us to give up all our rights to privacy and limits on search and seizure.

What will be enough to convince Americans that this "freedom" thing has run it's course?

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